Rega brio £549

Spurred on by my wife’s wish to revisit her old CDs, but to ‘not get too hi-fi about it, Chris’, I needed something compact and engaging for her tiny home office. This little beauty ticks all the boxe

High–end desktop speakers with plenty of power

High-end desktop speakers with plenty of power

UK CD sales peaked in 2001, when we bought 225.9 million discs worth £2.2 billion. Convenient, affordable and genuinely excellent in quality, the compact disc was, and remains, a format valued by list

CONTEXT is everything. Whether it’s knowing how much one loaf of bread costs compared with another, or understanding that a longer route to work will take less time due to prevailing traffic condition

Genesis, Crowded House, Simon & Garfunkel: some bands are so middle of the road that a white line should be painted straight down the middle of their album covers. But that doesn’t make their music an