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Best portable CD players 2025: Revive your CD library with these powerful portable players
Jan 22, 2025
It’s a new era for ‘old’ tech, as evidenced by these forward-thinking portable CD players from FiiO, Lenco, Philips and more
The compact disc was once a ubiquitous format. The generation-defining format was the way to listen to music, combining high audio fidelity with immense portability and sheer convenience besides. The humble CD has been overlooked in favour of tech both newer and older in recent years – however, and at just the right time, the great CD rehabilitation is nigh.
And with this rehabilitation comes a naturally renewed interest in ways of listening to them. This is especially true for portable CD players, which are making a comeback all of their own. Not only do portable CD players re-unlock the potential of your CD collection (and of your charity shop’s undoubtedly-bulging CD racks), but they enable a considered, focused, even tactile listening experience at home or on the move. Put simply: you need one of these in your life. But which one do you need?
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FiiO’s DM13 is a gem amongst portable CD players. It combines rugged and seamless portability with the functionality of full-size hi-fi CD players, and does so while looking kind of snazzy as well. This’ll be just as at-home in your bag or in your living room, and will sound good however you tap its audio.
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