It seems like an easy win, doesn’t it? Take the low-hanging fruit of all those five-star products that are available when you are trying to put a system together; they’re bound to work well together, right? Ooh, I know – even better. Take some What Hi-Fi? Award-winning equipment from 2025 and stick them in a set-up. Job done, surely?
You would think so, perhaps. But, inevitably, life just isn’t that simple. You might strike lucky, of course; but almost as likely is that something doesn’t quite gel with the random (well, not quite, admittedly) products you have selected. No matter the brilliance of individual products, they can’t always work optimally with everything else. You could create a team containing the 11 best goalkeepers in the world; but it wouldn’t be anything approaching the best football team.
