The SOtM sMS 200 streamer is an unassuming little unit costing $450 plus taxes. John Scott puts it to the test.
“The sMS200 comes in a neat, stylish SOtM-branded black box with the streamer itself snugly swaddled in matching black foam protection and accompanied by its wall-wart power supply. It was hard to tell from photos of the sMS 200 what its build quality was going to be like and to be honest, I didn’t have high hopes. It would be an understatement then to say that I was pleasantly surprised. The streamer is solidly constructed from black aluminium with a brushed silver aluminium front plate…”
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