![]() The same is true for a lot of late 90s/early 2000s recordings, an era when engineers were enamored of the added ability to create heavily edited complete performances from scraps of vocal or instrumental takes. If your tastes run to 1970s and 80s underground rock, the often low-fi and amateurish recordings of some otherwise great music (looking at you, SST Records) don’t exactly hold up under the SP3000 microscope. The SP3000 creates an immersive experience when playing back great performances that are recorded. There’s a caveat with a player this good. That’s usually marketing hyperbole, and this is the first time I’ve ever experienced something like this with an album I’ve worked on. There are a lot of audiophile products that promise to let you hear music just like it sounded in the recording studio. The Astell&Kern SP3000 digital audio player ships with a custom leather case. I spent a lot of time with Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, the classic jazz album Getz/Gilberto, and Michael Jackson’s Thriller, but landed on a 24 bit/96kHz FLAC version of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album Rumours as my focus, with special attention to “Go Your Own Way.” I used the same headphones with a Questyle M15 mobile DAC/headphone amp plugged into an iPhone for comparison.Īstell&Kern has a well-rounded library of Hi-Res music loaded onto its review units, featuring a variety of jazz, classical, rock, and R&B. I rotated four pairs of headphones with the SP3000-the closed-back Focal Celestee, Sennheiser’s IE-900 in-ear monitors (review forthcoming), a pair of Sony MDR-7506, and a yet-to-be-announced flagship model from a well-known brand. James Barber/Foundry What it’s like to listen to music on the Astell&Kern SP3000? The Astell&Kern SP3000 digital audio player has an excellent new interface that allows you to both access music stored on the device and connect with major streaming services. ![]()
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