If you've harboured any nagging doubts about the authenticity or otherwise of the vinyl revival, consider this stat: last year, pop lady of the moment Taylor Swift sold 575,000 vinyl copies of her Midnights album in the first week of release alone. Over half a million copies. On vinyl. In one week. Make no mistake: vinyl is back, back, back, baby.

Accordingly, so are record players. Where 20 years ago you could barely find a new turntable on the high street, now it seems you can't move for them. Even supermarkets are selling record players.

As with every other type of consumer technology audio gadget, the archetypal three-tier system is in play here, too. There's the feeding-frenzy, mass-market low end, where you mostly get what you pay for, with the occasional diamond in the rough to be had; then there's the high end, where prospective customers expect - nay demand! - to fork out large sums of money for the very finest systems available, mostly...