HiFi for small spaces
For a music lover, apartment-dwelling can be quite a challenge. The claims of furniture, books, CDs (for those that have retained them), computers and work paraphernalia etc. on the limited available space will often leave too little room for stacks of full-sized HiFi equipment and the acoustically appropriate positioning of physically separate stereo loudspeakers, to say nothing of the aesthetic impact of such things on a compact living space. Whilst all-in-one music systems are in no way a new phenomenon, the streaming age has brought something of a renaissance, combined with technological renewal, to the breed. Where such devices previously usually integrated a CD player and radio (and sometimes an iPod dock), nowadays they tend to eschew physical media in favour of internet music streaming. This change makes things like network connectivity and software just as important as pure audio performance and has left traditional HiFi brands playing catch-up as newcomers like Sonos (who ar