Portable CD players are back and now work with wireless headphones

It’s clip to excavation retired those CD binders you refused to portion with. Fiio, a Chinese audio cogwheel maker, is releasing a $179 portable CD subordinate successful September that brings pinch it modern upgrades nan Sony Discman ne'er had — including support for nan wireless headphones that didn’t beryllium successful nan Discman’s heyday.

Following vinyl’s resurgence successful popularity, request for audio cassettes and compact discs has increased successful caller years. At CES 2024, Fiio debuted nan CP13, an upgraded portable cassette subordinate inspired by nan iconic Sony Walkman. Half a twelvemonth later, nan Fiio DM13 gives portable CD players a likewise modern facelift.

The astir invited upgrade connected nan DM13 is simply a Bluetooth relationship supporting nan aptX, aptX HD, aptX Low Latency, and SBC codecs allowing nan subordinate to link to wireless headphones. For compact disc purists who don’t want to taxable their ears to Bluetooth’s audio compression, nan DM13 besides includes a modular 3.5mm headphone jack positive a 4.4mm balanced headphone connection.

A rechargeable artillery provides astir 8 hours of playback connected nan go, but nan DM13 tin besides beryllium integrated into a location stereo system. Analog, SPDIF, and USB audio connections are included, and nan rechargeable artillery tin beryllium bypassed while nan CD subordinate is successful “desktop mode” and connected to a imperishable powerfulness source.

Electronic daze protection tin beryllium activated to buffer euphony and forestall it from skipping while nan DM13 is carried around, but it isn’t constricted to only playing CDs. It’s besides compatible pinch MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, and WMA audio files burned onto a CDR.

At launch, nan Fiio DM13 will only beryllium disposable pinch a metallic finish, but 4 further colors will beryllium introduced later, including red, blue, black, and titanium.