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Premium audio hardware manufacturer and design company Astell&Kern have this week unveiled their latest creation in the form of the A&ultima SP2000 digital audio player, which will become the ...

Astell&Kern has been striking fear into the wallets of mobile music lovers for a few years now, putting out high-spec portable audio gear with a hefty price tag. And so it is with the company's ...

The bulkier big brother of the A&ultima SP1000, the SP2000 improves on the brand’s celebrated MP3-player-on-steroids model as its newest flagship player. And, as the “2000” moniker would suggest, the ...

You can’t really buy MP3 players anymore. Apple still sells the iPod Touch but it does much more than just play music – it’s got a camera and apps and costs £199 for just 32GB of storage. If you’re ...

The flagship Astell&Kern SP2000T DAP is going to be very expensive when it becomes available in October. We suspect it will be the best of its kind. Do people still use DAPs in 2021? One would think ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Astell&Kern, the South Korea-based manufacturer of high-end ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. I love music and I appreciate great sound quality. However, ...

Does the new Astell&Kern A&ultima SP3000 DAP reclaim the Iron Throne? We can think of 3,699 reasons why that is true. It is rather remarkable that there is a market in 2022 for $3,000 DAPs (Digital ...

But for a portable music player to have such a price tag is pretty unorthodox. Yet Astell & Kern’s flagship A&ultima SP2000 comes in at £3399 ($3499 / AU$4999) – around three times the cost of even ...