T+A Caruso

The T+A Caruso R is a ‘just add speakers’ all-in-one system. We (deliberately) test a great many of these as, collectively, they have changed the nature of two-channel audio over the last five years. Where once, they were a more elegant but intrinsically compromised alternative to a separate system, they have become devices that combine a set of features that aren’t just hard to match from separate units at the price but are actively impossible. In response, affordable separates themselves have changed their functionality and design to give themselves a little clear air. It has been an interesting few years and, in evolutionary terms, we have a way to go yet.