"It’s déjá vu all over again”, one of the famous malapropisms by late Yankees legend Yogi Berra, was my initial reaction to unboxing the Astell & Kern A&norma SR35.1 got the overwhelming sense that I had been here before. And again before that. It’s understandable really, as the new SR35 is the fourth iteration of this portable music player I have reviewed in as many years, and the model’s appearance has varied little more than Mickey Mouse’s over their respective careers.
Either the South Korean portable audio specialist is needlessly determined to compete with the annual smartphone launch cycle, or it keeps finding ways to improve upon its ‘budget’ player and cannot resist sharing it with the world. Let’s go with the latter…
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The SR35 is the first model in the entry-level A&norma line to
