If hi-res music players such as the Award-winning Astell & Kern AK70 or the Onkyo DX-P1 can be considered Jack-of-all-trades in the market – the former for its ability as a digital-to-analogue converter, the latter for its extensive smartphone-mirroring Android experience – you could perhaps call the Acoustic Research AR-M20 more a master of one.
As a straight-up, all-singing-no-dancing dedicated music player aimed at indomitable purists and anyone firmly rooted in ‘less is more’ minimalism, the M20 is focused fully on the task in hand.
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Based on, and sitting under, the brand’s £900/$1350 M2 (which we labelled ‘the best-sounding portable music player we’ve heard’ back in 2015), the only zero the M20 adds is to its big brother’s model number. The M20 is priced to compete with more affordable competition from fellow music player purveyors Onkyo, Pioneer, Sony and Astell & Kern.…
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