European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Sas Muir ration by its Evaro by Charlie Bowden Munich bureaus n some circles in Tho Early Days it was known As a jewel Box even Hough it s us a Clear plastic Container. The jewel is a paper thin shiny disk some 41i inches across but capable of storing thousands of pieces of information us proper name is compact do Smice their introduction on the american Market in 1983, compact discs have fired a revolution within Tho recording Industry not seen since audio cassettes in Iho late 1960s quickly replaced now extinct a a rocks and made reel to reels an esoteric item in Home enlgr1a Ament systems. Some soothsayers ominously predict that Tho Rise of the co signals the demise of the up. The co is the flagship of a process known As digital sound. Gone Are Hiss wow and flutter distortion pops and crackles replacing these curses of me audiophile Are what some Call pure sound it s a sound stored on the disks As thousands of bits of information or digits and picked up via a laser beam that quietly scans the surface and through an electronic a Wace transforms in into nearly Crystal Clear music. This phenomenon became a reality when Phillips which developed the video disc and Sony combined their technological taints the Impact was almost immediate despite High pric tags for cd players and a limited l
