Naim CD5 XS CD Player

There’s a danger people will ignore this Naim in favour of one of Cyrus’s superlative CD players. That would be a shame, as many of you will love the way it sounds. The CD5 XS is the second rung of Naim’s expansive CD player range. In our opinion it’s the best-value player the... [Read more]

Onkyo ND-S1 iPod Dock

When is an iPod dock not strictly an iPod dock? When it’s a digital media transport, that’s when. On the face of it that might sound like pedantry, but the distinction is an important one: where most docks take an analogue signal from the bottom of an iPod, the Onkyo ND-S1 takes the unfettered... [Read more]

Acoustic Energy Radiance 1

British speaker makers have a long, creative history of producing small but excellent-sounding two-way designs. (The origin myth of this tradition has less to do with the cozy dimensions of British parlors than with the BBC, which in the mid-1970s standardized on a single small-monitor design and then... [Read more]