The silver disc refuses to retire, and Majority is betting real money on that. The Cambridge-based budget brand has expanded its home audio line-up with four new components built around the same idea: modern streaming for people who never got round to throwing out their CD collection. What Hi-Fi? detailed the range on September 4, 2026, and the German outlet StereoGuide lists all four as available in Europe.
Three of them carry the Fitzwilliam name, a badge Majority has used on its radio tuners for years, and the trio is arranged so you can enter at whichever point your existing kit allows.
The Fitzwilliam CD (€199) is the pure source component. It handles CD, CD-R and CD-RW, adds DAB+ and FM with RDS, internet radio, podcasts, Spotify Connect with lossless streaming, Bluetooth 5.2 and USB playback from drives up to 128GB. Outputs run to analogue RCA, optical and coaxial digital, plus a 3.5mm headphone socket, and there is an analogue RCA input and a 3.2-inch colour display.
The Fitzwilliam Amp (€229) drops the disc tray and adds muscle: 200 watts from a Class-D design built on Texas Instruments amplification, with the same streaming and radio feature set. Connections include analogue RCA in, optical and coaxial digital inputs, USB, a stereo pre-out and a 3.5mm headphone output.
The interesting one is the Fitzwilliam CD Amp (€269), which folds the disc mechanism and the 200-watt amplifier into a single full-width box. It keeps the 3.2-inch colour display, the CD, CD-R and CD-RW support, the DAB+/FM tuner and the Spotify Connect lossless streaming, and it drives passive speakers directly from its own terminals while still offering a stereo pre-out. For anyone rebuilding a system around a pair of second-hand bookshelf speakers, that is a lot of function for the money.
Then there is the Quadriga Maxi (€399), aimed squarely at what the announcement calls “listeners who want everything in a single box”. It is a 200W 2.1 system: two 3-inch full-range drivers flanking a 5.25-inch downward-facing subwoofer, all inside a 50 x 13.3 x 28 cm cabinet weighing 6.4 kg.
- CD, CD-R, CD-RW and MP3-CD playback
- Spotify Connect, internet radio and podcasts
- DAB/DAB+ (174–240 MHz, Band III) and FM (87.5–108.0 MHz) with RDS
- Bluetooth 5.2, USB, RCA, 3.5mm aux in and optical SPDIF
- 4.3-inch colour TFT display (480 x 272), app control and remote
Majority quotes a three-year warranty on the Quadriga Maxi when the product is registered online. None of this is high-end hi-fi, and the specification sheets are careful not to define how those 200-watt figures are measured. But at these prices, a genuine CD transport with lossless streaming bolted on is a rarer proposition than it should be — and it lands at exactly the moment physical media has stopped being embarrassing.
