Why buy a portable music player? You already have a phone that plays music – and who wants to carry two separate devices around with you?

With many of the current batch of phones compatible with high-resolution files, the argument in favour of dedicated music players seems tenuous – right up until the point where you start listening to one.

As a breed, they simply sound better than most phones, almost comically so in some respects.

Pioneer is looking to expand into this category and why not? The brand has an excellent stereo heritage littered with enough quality kit to suggest it could challenge current class leaders such as Astell & Kern and Sony.
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