Manley Stingray iTube (£2695)

摘要

As inescapably all-pervading as swine flu or the taxman, Apple's iPod is now the most popular source component of all. The generation gap is bookended by Those Who Like Physical Music Carriers and Those Happy To Use Music Files. And, as this is a transitional period, there are those who use both. We are in the middle of a revolution that will render wall-filling libraries of discs about as desirable as typewriters or cathode-ray TVs.rnBecause of this, canny manufacturers of 'old school' hi-fi components who don't want the new listeners to aspire to nothing more than cheap plastic all-in-one docks have added iPod functionality to their components.