Our favorite elite Hi-Res music player has a record-low Black Friday deal – are you ready to go audiophile?

We’ve found an excellent Black Friday deal on one of our favorite Hi-Res Audio players, the FiiO M23: right now, you can get the Fiio M23 for $649 at Amazon, down from the usual $699.

• Shop Amazon’s full Black Friday sale

(Not in the US? There’s a UK alternative below too – and you can see today’s best Fiio M23 prices in your region below)

FiiO M23 review we were almost moved to poetry: it’s “delicate yet muscular, assertive yet subtle, lavishly detailed and vaultingly dynamic,” we said. It’s a large, lavishly specified and beautifully made digital audio player that can power wired headphones, stream to wireless ones, upgrade your computer’s audio or be the DAC in a desktop audio system. It’s a player of many talents.

In our review, we described its sound quality: “It can punch hard if your music demands it, but never in an uncontrolled manner, and it can give the emotion and attitude in an unaccompanied voice absolutely explicit expression…. it’s the real deal.” The only real negative is the lack of on-board storage – at just 64GB that’s pretty skimpy – but there’s a microSD slot that’ll take cards up to 2TB, which is much better.