Music servers/clients

With the Xtreamer iXtreamer you can replay music and movie content straight into your TV from your Apple portable

Paired with its BDA-1 DAC sibling, Bryston's BDP-1 music client is a formidable hi-fi media player

Other music servers can rival the Control 15's sound quality, but nothing, at any price, gets close to its extraordinary usability

Cyrus's first music streamer works wonders with digital music collections

The dinky LG ST600 streamer box is a media Tardis

The Rotel RT-09 network music client is a stylish jack of all trades

The Yamaha NP-S2000 is a no-frills music streaming/internet client that needs a high-end system to do it justice

The lack of on-demand stuff severely limits the usefulness of this LaCie device, although it's still a perfectly good streamer

Sony's first stab at the music server market is a worthy contender to go head-to-head with Apple's TV

If you know your stuff, the Boxee may be for you – but this is no device for novices