TINY TITANS

Marantz M-CR612 and NAD M10

trend towards high-quality all-in-one amplifier+CD+streamer+tuner (or variations on this) units. This type of product was once the domain of lesser quality systems, i.e. if you couldn’t afford or didn’t have the space for a Hi-Fi system, or it simply wasn’t that important, you invariably ended up with a ‘midi’ system rather than the multiple boxes of electronics which defined a Hi-Fi system. But now the idea of ‘less-is-better’ is becoming more popular, with an increasing number of manufacturers of quality releasing all-in-one electronic packages, as seen with the recent