Cocktail Audio X10

The Cocktail X10 is positioned to take on the Brennan JB7, but adds a raft of extra features and considerably greater hard-drive sizes from 500GB to 2TB. It’s a compact unit that can rip CDs in a variety of formats including WAV and FLAC. It also streams both wired and wirelessly (with an optional £29 dongle) and can use this connection to stream net radio and music from drives on the network. Alternatively, two USB inputs allow for a simpler set up and to top it all it’s an amplifier with a single line input and a 60-watt maker’s rating.