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ASTELL&KERN A&NORMA SR15

The high-res portable player emerged as a reaction against low-quality MP3s and other file formats used on portable devices of yesteryear – you could have 1000 tracks in your pocket, as they said, but only at the lowest of quality. Astell&Kern is the high-end portable division of iriver, and if iriver didn’t quite invent the concept of an audiophile portable device, it was right in

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