From a Sony Stereo CD and Cassette Boombox to a Philips Bluetooth Boombox Speaker, here are the best CD players with speakers under $300.

Photo credit: Philips Philips’s Joop Sinjou introduces the CD on March 9, 1979. Over the next few years, the ALP system shrunk down to an 11.5-cm disc that could store 60 minutes of stereo audio.

Along with launching various radios, Philips has many audio firsts to its name – it launched the first personal cassette ...

Portable Media Players; Philips in iPod docks shock. News. By Rob Mead published 16 July 2007 Not 1, ... Portable CD player with FM/AM radio and top-mounted iPod dock. MCM398D - £140 ...

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In April 1982 Philips showed off a production CD player for the first time. "From now on, the conventional record player is obsolete," said Lou Ottens. The first commercial CDs pressed were The ...

A Philips cassette tape is shown in 1965. Lou Ottens, who led the invention of the first cassette tape, has died at 94. Alfred Assmann/Picture Alliance via Getty Images hide caption ...

In 1963, it was presented at the Berlin Radio electronics fair and soon became a worldwide success. ... In 1982, when Philips showed off a production CD player, Ottens said: ...

Best hi-fi systems 2025: CD, vinyl and streaming music players for the home; Today, the brand has launched The Janet – a portable radio that packs in a 2.5in full-range driver and 5 watts of output ...