
It’s fair to say the world of affordable hi-fi has shrunk and changed dramatically over the years. Gone are the days of the What Hi-Fi? budget CD player supertest, when it was easy for us to round up ten or twelve affordable machines to pit against each other.
Now, what we classify as an entry-level CD player has moved up a couple of price points, and you’ll be lucky to find more than a handful of options on the market.