This is what a £3k portable music player sounds like

A few thousand pounds may not be considered a flagship price for a lot of the kit we test – that’s still mid-range for hi-fi speakers and some way short of the figure attached to top-tier TVs, for example.

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 the fanciest smartphone and any other other music-playing device you can carry around in your pocket.
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