Philips Black Tulip

Don’t you just love Philips? Virtually every time this ingenious Dutch consumer electronics giant went anywhere near serious hi-fi, it all went horribly wrong. Such was the ‘Black Tulip’ range – the company’s portfolio of avowedly high end late nineteen seventies esoterica designed

Philips CD850/II

It is 1989, and the hi-fi world is a very different place. We’re still in the midst of an intense debate on the merits, or otherwise, of digital audio – and unless you’re one of a handful of hi-fi hacks