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It’s a development of an idea on the SE200 and you’ll either think it is heroically pointless or you might be intrigued enough to give it a go.
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The second is that the SE180 can do something that nothing else I’ve ever tested, be it static or portable, at any price can do. It changes the dynamic of how you might elect to make use of it. This means that the SE180 has a feature enabled that is now also available for the SE200 that wasn’t ready when that was reviewed. Perhaps because of this, Astell&Kern is in the midst of a fascinating period of evolution that makes its portable players something you might consider, even if you aren’t planning on heading outside with them very much (although, as we shall cover, they are working imaginatively in that direction too). Portable audio players are a specialist category in 2021 with most of us (and I include myself in this) content to pop a pair of true wireless buds in for use on the move. First up, there is the fairly straightforward situation that Astell & Kern is the biggest fish in a fairly small pond.
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As this is not a category we give regular attention to within AVForums and we’ve also looked at the KANN Alpha, you might question why we’ve come back for another bite at the Astell & Kern cherry.
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The Astell & Kern A&Futura SE180 (to give it its full name) is a portable audio player that arrives in the same group as the SE200 player we looked at last year.