The Compact Disc is 43 years old

CDs

It's been 43 years since the first Comact Discs were pressed in 1982, ushering in an age of vastly superior fidelity ruined by slapdash remastering. The first official pressing on the new optical medium was Abba's The Visitors, one of the biggest vinyl LPs of the year, though an earlier test pressing was made of Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie.

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