FAD GADGETS

Rhodri Marsden on three of the latest must-have gizmos currently putting the prog in progress.

ASTELL & KERN NOVUS This month, a small selection of things that neither you nor I can afford, but there’s nothing wrong with a bit of aspirational ogling. Astell & Kern are known primarily for their eye-wateringly expensive digital music players, but here they’ve collaborated with Empire Ears, known for eye-wateringly expensive in-ear monitors beloved by a fairly small number of wealthy musicians. These earphones have a 24-carat goldplated faceplate, bespoke balanced armatures, dual high mass bone conductors and are described by the firm as an “audacious leap forward”. At £4,999 the pair, you’d have to agree. www.astellnkern.com BB KING’S GIBSON During a 1997 concert at the Vatican, BB King presented one of his “Lucille” guitars, a 1996 Gibson in traditional black, to Pope John Paul II. “For me it…

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