Like most millennium house­holds, the Taylor  family has assembled a formidable array of digital music. It includes a multi-gigabyte music collection on various PCs and home servers – much of it ripped from CDs – and subscriptions to several “all you can eat” music services including Real Networks’ excellent Rhapsody service.

But in spite of having home theatre and hi-fi stereo systems in several rooms, most of our time listening to digital music is spent sitting at a desktop PC with rather inadequate desktop speakers.