THE SYSTEM
CD PLAYER
CYRUS CDI (£1595)
DAC/STREAMER
CHORD MOJO2/POLY (£995)
STEREO AMPLIFIER
REGA ELEX MK4 (£1199)
LOUDSPEAKERS
NEAT IOTA ALPHA (£2025)
TOTAL PRICE £5814
This is where we move things up a level or two all round from our bargain £1600 turntable and streaming system. Unconventional in many ways, the members of this quartet combine beautifully to create a thoroughly modern, fully digital system that takes those ones and zeroes and maxes them up to 10; or perhaps that should be 11?
Compact disc player: Cyrus CDi
We’ll kick things off here with the main source. Reports of the compact disc’s death have been greatly exaggerated over the past few years – partly, it’s true, because of the stubborn, wonderful refusal of the turntable to reverse its
