Brennan JB7

You get the option to rip CDs in uncompressed state, at 320Kbit/sec, 192Kbit/sec or 128Kbit/sec, and with a built-in music database from CDDB, the device should recognise most CDs' titles artists and track names without recourse to the remote control's...

Compact storage for thousands of CDs; pleasant, benign sound

Speakers can be bettered; remote control

This hard-drive hi-fi is a little ripper, and a great alternative to an iPod dock

This hard-drive hi-fi is a little ripper, and a great alternative to an iPod dock

If you have a large collection of music and want to keep it all in one place, Brennan's JB7 is one of the most effective solutions we've seen yet for helping you do this, while remaining compact, stylish and easy to use.

The JB7 from Brennan aims to make music simple - the way it always used to be before the advent of MP3 players, phones that do everything, downloadable music and the proliferation of media formats. While tackling this noble aim it doesn't aim...