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▪ Astell & Kern A&norma SR15

£549

With its quirky design and even quirkier name, the Astell & Kern A&norma SR15 has dual-DACs, 3.5mm and balanced 2.5mm headphone jacks, 64GB of storage, and built-in Bluetooth, wi-fi and Tidal. Now it also has two consecutive Product of the Year Awards.

The A&norma shares many of the features of its predecessor, the AK70 MKII, but also sports an improved interface and support for native DSD playback (to DSD64) in addition to PCM files up to 24-bit/192kHz. A 32-bit file with a 384kHz or 352kHz sampling rate is downsampled to 24-bit/192 kHz or 24-bit/176 kHz respectively for playback, and DSD128 is also playable through conversion to PCM 24-bit/176kHz.

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