Numark lightwave  when they are attached  to a pair of ruddy great big speakers that sound good and rock along with whatever you are listening to and mixing, then what’s not to like? Numark’s Lightwave speakers have literally lit up our studio this year, packing a volume easily good enough for a house party at half level and more than capable of holding their own outside on a medium scale. The sound is clear, too, with little distortion at high levels.

We tried plugging in everything from phones and laptops to keyboards, and were pretty impressed with the results. And the lights even more so, as you get several patterns and can choose the colours and brightness of each or have rotating ones.

The Meter option is the best, exhibiting the meters of a mixer, bouncing along with your music – but that might be the inner music production geek in us trying to get out. OK, these aren’t mixing monitors really (although do play your mixes on them for comparison), and they’re not to be taken too seriously, but they’re solid, sound good and will add a bit of colour to your (probably already colourful) setup.