Frankly I dont know what category to put these devices in on the website. They are as unmistakeably Swiss as a sixties bar of Toblerone or a Swissair Caravelle. As they were unpacked they were first placed in the front of the original enthusiast HiFi building amidst the 1080P TVs and the stacks of componenets and corridoors of speakers and they were just ... wrong ...
Then however I cleared some space in the other building wherin there reside Tivoli Radios and other devices of cuteness such as the Morel Nova sound system .... and suddenly they were home.
If you have a very European concept of style and are looking for the simplest and shortest path to a big piece of music in your home, then you need to come and check out what these Geneva Labs Music systems can do.

So what happens when you take Arcam's superb Solo CD/amp system, and then cut it in half with a circular saw? Actually you get a disasterous waste of high quality electronics and some significant damage to your saw... But if you would like a pretty special HiFi system in a single half sized box the Solo Mini is here for you. The Mini uses many of the same components as it's bigger cousin to give a magnificent stereo sound for those who want to avoid the "stack of black boxes".

The Play3 is a recent addition to Sonos that squarely attacks the Bose Wave radio at its price point. This product has quite exceptional quality and utility for a small room or bedside sound system.

It's just like any modern high quality DVD player, 1080P up scaling via HDMI, wonderful crisp images with excellent colour balance and contrast, but it's a fraction of the size.

Ask about a deal with the matched AR30 2.1 amp.

This stylish little box is available in Red White or Black and is just thoroughly cute. There is thirty unspecified watts of amplification spread between two three inch drivers and the brick sized device has a 3.5mm socket for device input at the rear along with an aeriel socket for the onboard FM.

The Sonata range from Cambridge Audio offers the same stonking great audio that we've come to expect from their Azure range of Hi Fi components, but in a much smaller box. You're new HiFi system starts with the AR30, a beautiful blend of high quality audio and convenience.

This impossibly the ultimate one box iPod replay box ... Clearly targeted to slay the B&W Zeppelin and the Bose dock devices the Viso capitalizes on a new raft of tech as well as original NAD 3020 amplifier concepts to make the loudest and cleanest boom box in class by a very substantial margin.

We always hear folks talking about how good the picture is on a new TV, but no one ever makes much mention of the sound. That's because by and large, it's pretty ordinary. The ever so slim screens don't leave much space for a set of speakers. So what is one to do if a giant thumping surround sound system is out of the question, but the tinny squeek from the TV is unacceptable? One straps the amazing Q-TV2 system to the back of your flat panel set.

This is a wonderful bit of reall HiFi in a very small package. Denon's mini systems keep getting better with even this cheaper system benifiting from the application of their very high standard of audio design.

Loewe are known for amazing, stylish televisions that produce the highest quality images you'll see on a flat pannel. They are not well known for making wonderful, and affordable mini systems.

Well, they soon will be.

It's hard to get an all-in-one stereo system that doesn't make your speakers sound like they are inside a bucket of wet sand. Cambridge are bent on changing the rules with the One. An integrated CD/amp/tuner unit that delivers solid detail and control. At this extremely reasonable price it also packs in an integrated iPod dock, a USB and SD card input.

Actually there are no ghettos in Waterbeach where Arcam originates, it's a village outside Cambridge with an airbase that became an Industrial park in the seventies. The Royal Engineers still occupy the tarmac area itself and seem to enjoy themselves practicing Afghan revetements.
With an R Cube you will have a handled and lithiumed pod and play machine that's smaller than a football but big enough to party ...

There are approximately 1.13456 billion Airplay devices currently on the market, but none that are as sexy and all German perfection as the Loewe AirSpeaker. Photo's don't convey just how good this little guy looks and do an even worse job of showing how good it sounds...

The more things change the more they stay the same. In the seventies I was purveying Music Centres and now that product tag has been revived for attractive mini systems such as this Vita device that really can no longer be considered just a Radio.

This mini system claims to offer 70W (???) to each of its two channels and supports a variety of digital media such as Blu-ray Disc (including BD Live), DVD and CD. It also comes with two USB ports with one at the front supporting iPod/iPhone digital direct play and the other, USB memory.

The French.

The people we love to hate, and hate to love, have created this fine piece of audio furniture that I love to love.

I confess that I had rather put this product into the "Lifestyle" category, ie: expensive and good looking but obviously not going to be a fiscal value performer when it came to the sound quality per dollar ratio ... and then I played it to a client.

I don't like Bang and Olufsen ... not because it's badly engineered or anything ... but more fundamentally because there have have been a number of potential clients that I have spent a long time with designing a luscious custom installation audio visual system for their residence only to have their wife dictate B&O instead. So when my friends Phillipe and Greg suggested that we should be purveying this bit of French Lifestyle with B & O ICE amplification I at first suffered an immune response of product negativity. However as it happens the Elipson sounds just fine and looks very special.