Is this the ultimate portable music player? Certainly, if you’re thinking in terms of price-per-megabyte of storage, the newest version of Astell&Kern’s SP3000 player, the Copper edition, is the top of the tree. The SP3000 has ‘only’ 256GB of onboard memory, as well as a microSD slot that’ll take cards of up to 1TB, numbers that seem big until you look at the galaxies of music we’re used to accessing via the myriad streaming services that are now bundled into every device.
So why take your music with you? Astell&Kern’s products are all about the highest of high fidelity. The Korean audio brand offers a wide range of media players, speakers and headphones, all of which purport to offer your ears what the company calls ‘mastering quality sound’, or MQS.
