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Ruark R5

Network streamer | £849 | View offers whf.cm/RuarkR5

As more and more products adopt the term, the ‘system’ now has many different meanings in the world of hi-fi. Some systems are made up of several wireless speakers in a multi-room capacity, while others are one- or two-box, just-add-speaker types whose abilities stop at source and amplification.

Others come closer to the definition of a system as ‘a set of things working together’, offering everything from source to amplification to speakers.

The Ruark R5 is one of these.

The R5 is one of the most well-featured all-in-one desktop systems around, offering network streaming, a CD player, DAB+ and FM radio, aptX HD Bluetooth and

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