CDs Making Sweet Music For Industry; Improved Pricing, Variety Boost Compact Disc Sales From: The Washington Post | Date: February 1, 1987| Author: Mark Potts | Copyright 1987 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

If you received a compact disc player for Christmas, you've joined the crowd.

Surging sales of the high-quality digital sound systems in the last few weeks of 1986 helped make disc players the fastest-selling electronic gadgets ever. Three million of the devices were sold last year, according to the Electronic Industries Association, and the Washington-based trade group is predicting sales of 4.25 million units this year.

And while such hi-fi "breakthroughs" as quadraphonic so...