In an age of globular, fabric-swaddled smart speakers, Bluetooth boxes and multi-room audio systems ready to set up an invisible mesh in your home (to command drivers subtly squirrelled away in your walls and ceiling), a set of passive stereo floorstanders towed in and physically hooked up to a stack on a rack, topped by the new Cambridge Audio CXN100 network player, might seem a bit much.
Not when it's done to Cambridge Audio's exacting standards though. Having just heard the new network player at the British firm's Melomania HQ in London, I now know for certain that a more traditional hi-fi approach leading to a set of floorstanders – albeit one capable of hi-res streaming of digital music files – is best.
