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    Oct 14, 2018 4 minutes
    Stephen Dawson

    It looks like Astell&Kern is going affordable. Well, a little bit anyway. Rather than a portable media player priced at $5000+, this Astell&Kern SR15 is available in Australia for $999. Its full name is the ‘A&norma SR15’, presumably to contrast it more completely with the more expensive A&futura SE100.

    Equipment

    The A&norma SR15 is a smallish (10cm long) high-resolution music player. It has 64GB of storage built in, and supports a single SD card of up to 400GB for additional storage. It has a 3.5mm stereo output for regular headphones, and a 4-pole 2.5mm output for balanced headphones.

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