Astell&Kern AK380

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Astell & Kern, the hi-end audio brand of Iriver – a Korean producer, has become a familiar name for any audiophile in the world. Any audio player wishing to own ultra-stylish music player, extreme hardware and excellent music playing capabilities like the Astell & Kern AK240 or Astell & Kern AK120 II.

At the Munich High End Show in Germany, Astell & Kern continues to surprise fans at the same time introducing two new products: AK JR – mid range hearing aids, on shelves. At the price of $550, beside the flagship Astell & Kern AK380, to own it, you will have to spend up to $5000.

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Dimensions: 80 x 112.4 x 18mm

Weight: 230g

Battery capacity: 3.400mAh

Manufactured from CNC milling aircraft casing

Capacitive touch screen 4 inches, resolution 800 x 480 pixels

256 GB internal memory, microSD card support up to 128 GB

Connectivity: wifi: 802.11 b / g / n 2.4GHz, DLNA, bluetooth v4.0

Supported audio formats: WAV, FLAC, WMA, MP3, OGG, APE (Normal, High, Fast), AAC, ALAC, DFF, DSF, AIFF: 8 kHz – 192 kHz (8/16/24 bps) ); DSD Native: PCM 32bit / 384kHz, DSD128 (5.6MHz / 1bit)

Sample Rate: 8kHz, 16KHz, 32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz, 176.4kHz, 192kHz, 352.8kHz, 384kHz

The hardware inside this flagship is also very impressive, most notably that Astell & Kern replaced two Cirrus Logic CS4398 DACs on the AK240 with two AKM AK4490 DACs combined with a VCXO clock generator for extremely low jitter ( Less than 0.2Ps). The AK380 supports all high-definition digital music formats such as WFLAC, WAV, ALAC, AIFF: 8 kHz – 192 kHz (8/16/24 bps), DSD Native: PCM 32bit / 384kHz, DSD128 (5.6MHz / 1bit) as well as lower formats such as MP3, WMA, …

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In addition, the AK380 is equipped with a 32-bit DAC chip to process 32-bit native audio. While other players use the traditional sample rate converter (SRC) to reduce Frequency sampling and then replay; The AK380 processes native 32-bit, 384-kHz raw audio without damaging the signal or any sound details from the original.

On storage capacity, the AK380 has 256GB of built-in memory and can be expanded with microSD memory cards (up to 128GB). The player comes with wireless connectivity, including 802.11b / g / n wifi, Bluetooth 4.0 and DLNA (which turns the AK380 into a digital music server). Users can control this device to play music remotely via smartphone (iOS / Android) with AK Connect App software.

Finally, the AK380 offers users many choices: use as a USB DAC to play music from a PC, connect to other devices through the balanced port (4 pins) at the bottom, increase the head power Pull out high impedance headphones by plugging in the AK380 amplifier or connect directly to the AK380 CD-ROM to rip CDs directly to the AK380.

AK380 is the world’s most expensive digital music player. The price of this flagship is very picky, but owning a high-end player like the AK380 is always a pride, a true dream of every audiophile.

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