It was in the middle of June this year, some eight weeks ago, that I was hanging out with Cambridge Audio to listen to the company's new Evo One all-in-one music player in the most apt of places – the former Sex Pistols' London home, on Denmark Street, where the walls are covered in John Lydon's graffiti. An iconic backdrop from a British band in which to listen to a very British audio brand's latest.
Not that I'd associate Lydon's gratuitous scrawls with the Cambridge Audio's design language: the Evo One is a meticulously engineered all-in-one, replete with 14 drivers within and 700W of amplification total, but there is a touch of humanity in its wooden-topped design. This is real walnut, too, with each of the Evo One samples I saw presenting individual grain patterns – a natural graffiti of the product's own design, if you will.
