Winner Audio Gadget of the Year
Sonos Play:3
Guide price: £260
The dinky Play:3 may not have room for skipping CDs, tangling tapes or crackling vinyl, but it is a consummate streamer of digital music, a conduit for internet radio and a server-upper of Spotify, Napster, Deezer and more. It can also link with its Sonos brethren to form a multiroom setup, pair with another Play:3 for stereo output and pump out room-filling sound of the highest quality.
Highly commended
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B&W Zeppelin Air
The Zeppelin range’s design flair and audio quality, plus Apple’s AirPlay skills, equals dock heaven.
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Geneva Model M
If you’re after the best possible sound from an iThing dock, look no further than the Model M.
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Denon CEOL
A mini hi-fi that sounds great and packs a dock, internet radio, CD player, network streaming and AirPlay into a smart white chassis.
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TDK 2-Speaker Boombox
With smart retro-futuristic looks and a sound as weighty as the Boombox itself, this is no gimmick.
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Cambridge Audio NP30
A network streamer for audiophiles, the NP30 can play everything up to 24-bit/ 96kHz studio masters.
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Naim UnitiQute
The UnitiQute is a streaming hi-fi system with sound to (almost) die for. It’s not cheap, but genius rarely is.
