Luxury mp3 players and docking stations

MUSIC TO YOUR EARS

Gone are the days where you had to dust off a vinyl record, pull out your favourite mix tape or even plug in a CD. MP3 is where it's at these days, with modern music players allowing thousands of songs and albums to be stored digitally on increasingly tiny devices.

So, which one to choose? Allow us to help by checking out our uber spread of the most luxurious personal music players and docking stations on the market. You'll never have to spend hours alphabetising your music collection again. We've sourced some seriously good headphones too.

STUART HUGHES IPOD TOUCH SUPREME F...

STUART HUGHES

£209,995

Stuart Hughes has taken a standard Apple iPod and turned it into a musical masterpiece. The Supreme Fire comprises a mouthwatering 24-carat gold shell while no less than 124 diamonds decorate the outside edge of the device. All this and you still get all the features and gadgetry that you'd expect from a standard iPod. Result!

COLORFLY POCKET HIFI

COLORFLY

£549

German firm Colorfly has created a quite beautiful music player with its Pocket HiFi. Black walnut wood makes up the casing whilst the eye-catching motif is painstakingly hand drawn onto each individual device. Brilliantly, the gear inside the luxury housing is of the same high standard, with the Pocket HiFi producing sound of staggering quality.

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MUSIC FOR MILLIONAIRES

Manufacturer TrekStor claims that the i.Beat Organix Gold is the world's most expensive MP3 player, and it's not hard to see why. With an 18-carat gold case featuring over 60 diamonds, and even a jewel-laden chain, music has never sounded so uber. This luxury music player came into being after the company was asked to develop it for a Russian billionaire!

PARTY TIME!

Sometimes, you just have to share the music...

BEOSOUND 8

BANG & OLUFSEN

£895

There's been a real gap in the market where luxury mp3 docking stations are concerned....until music giants Bang & Olufsen created the BeoSound 8. As you'd expect with all B&O products, this beauty is not only eye-catching from the outside, but also delivers on the inside, with its two sleek loudspeakers delivering sound of immeasurable quality. There's even a choice of 6 coloured speaker covers for when you feel like a change.

ZEPPELIN AIR

BOWERS & WILKINS

£499

Bowers & Wilkins' distinctive mp3 system certainly stands out from the crowd, and for good reason. The original Zeppelin already led the way in the docking station market, but the latest version is even better. B&W's 'AirPlay' technology means that music can be streamed wirelessly to the Zeppelin, while bass quality has been significantly improved thanks to advanced Digital Signal Processing technology. Time to crank up the volume!