The latest CD player from the very British Rega Research incorporates a very ingenious way of reading a disc, it dumps music information from the CD into a large buffer memory.

This gives it the ability to read the disc many more times before the listener gets to hear the final music, and the consequences are a smooth, deep vinyl like sound! We love this little player, with a performance that challenges models costing three times its price. And at £598 it's the What Hif-Fi's CD player of the year 2008.