What did we do before music streaming services and Bluetooth-enabled smartphones? We owned CDs. Books of them. We made "CD mix-tapes" and some of our friends were a bit naughty and got their music for free on LimeWire.
Obviously, times have changed. But the Compact Disc's relevance and quality (16-bit/44kHz, so a lot better than your Spotify files and the resolution now recognized as the gateway to hi-res audio) has not. And products such as Yamaha's five-disc changer, the high-end Hegel Viking, Arcam's CD5, Pure's C-D6 (a DAB radio with a built-in CD player), and B&O's hugely expensive vertical six-disc CD player are all proof that the format's enjoying no small renaissance.
