Activo P1

Not quite the next Walkman

Astell & Kern is one of the brands to have dominated the portable music player market, with numerous five-star players that sound fantastic, bringing out more detail, dynamics and power than even the best-sounding smartphone. A&K’s players tend to be rather pricey, however; so the Activo sub-brand was created to cater to a younger, more ‘active’ audience whose budgets can’t quite stretch to four figures. At £399, the Activo P1 a considerably cheaper entry point into the world of hi-res music players. Around the P1’s price we have the Sony Walkman NW-A306, a compact and likeable if sometimes clunky player that is a smidge cheaper at £349. The same team behind our favourite portable digital audio player, A&K’s SR35, conceived and designed the P1, so we aren’t surprised to find…

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What Hi-Fi? (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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