Astell&Kern AK100 Mastering Quality Sound (MQS) Portable System Details
Product Description
The Astell&Kern AK100 is the ultimate portable high-fidelity audio system capable of studio Mastering Quality Sound (MQS) support and playback. MQS (24bit, 96kHz -192kHz) is considered as the digital music format with the most amount of information and commonly saved as a lossless 24bit WAV/FLAC format. The difference between MQS and MP3s/CDs (WAV) can be heard and felt because the sound is distortion free because no data loss occurs within the MQS (24bit) source. The Astell&Kern AK100 does not need external MQS encoding and results in a more refined and pure sound.
Features:
Bit-to-bit Mastering Quality Sound (MQS) playback
World's first portable device equipped with the Wolfson WM8740 24bit/192kHz DAC
Dual MicroSD card slots with 32GB of internal flash memory - 96GB of music storage space
Use the Astell&Kern AK100 with or as an external optical DAC
Refined design w/ integrated volume wheel & brushed aluminum body
Intuitive user interface experience with touchscreen LCD & control buttons
Technical Specs
Dimensions: 2.32" x 3.11" x 0.55" (in)
Weight: 4.3oz
DAC: Wolfson WM8740 (24bit/192kHz)
Display: 2.4" IPS Touch Screen (320 x 240)
Memory: 32GB Internal / Dual Micro SD card slots (32 GB each)
Audio Formats: WAV/FLAC/MP3/OGG/WMV/APE/AAC/AIFF/ALAC
Bluetooth: 3.0/A2DP
Output Level: 1.5 VRMS
THD+N: < 0.0008%/1kHz ; < 0.001%/10Hz ~ 20kHz
Signal to Noise: 110 dB
Frequency Response: ± 0.14 dB/10Hz ~ 20kHz
Jitter: 90 PS
- High-resolution music track support up to 24bit/192kHz; Natively supports FLAC, OGG, WMA, MP3, WAV, APE (AAC Support Coming Soon)
- Integrated Wolfson WM8740 high-performance DAC; can be used as an external optical DAC
- 2.4" capacitive 16MM IPS touchscreen (320x240); Bluetooth 3.0 supported
- Dual Micro SD Memory Card slots (32GB support in each slot); 32GB of internal flash memory; total memory space of 96GB
- 12 hours continuous audio playback (FLAC 24bit/96kHz)
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Astell&Kern AK100 Mastering Quality Sound (MQS) Portable System Reviews
| 19 of 21 people found the following review helpful  astounding sound, amazing versatility, now plays all Apple formats natively!, By Sky Blue (germany) - See all my reviews This review is from: Astell&Kern AK100 Mastering Quality Sound (MQS) Portable System (Electronics) [UPDATE January 23, 2013] The company has kept promise! Now with 1.30 update, this little device plays all Apple formats (AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF) natively! OMG. Apple formats never sounded so beautiful through a non-APPLE portable device! I am listening now to a good old George Winston's December in AAC format, and my ears are feeling the winter chill! This has to be experienced to be believed! It is like HD sound -- a Retina display to my ears! (Also with 1.30 update, it fully supports 24/192 Bluetooth play. I now notice the sound does not have any pause it used to have with 24/196 Bluetooth play whatsoever.) Apple, you'd better produce something better. I was a die-hard I-Pod Classic fan for the past 8 years; nowadays I almost never listen to it.If you are not familiar about what this strange looking device is for but if you know about the ubiquitous I-Pod, I can explain about this device in comparison to I-Pod by summing up the major differences as follows:... Read more 3 of 4 people found the following review helpful Amazing sound!, By This review is from: Astell&Kern AK100 Mastering Quality Sound (MQS) Portable System (Electronics) I bought this AK100 last weekend and the sound is just amazing especially for classical music! Good for classical music lover 15 of 23 people found the following review helpful  For people say it sucks, please listen to it first form a porper setup, This review is from: Astell&Kern AK100 Mastering Quality Sound (MQS) Portable System (Electronics) If you really going to dump ACC files onto this, please, save your money and buy an ipod, this is not for you.This is not design for main steam pop music that only have 5 tones in the low and 1 channel in the mid. This is for people who want to appreciate music as the way they should be made: Properly recorded with high fidelity with high frequency band and high quantization. Thus, before you make any judgement about its file support, please, understand this: 700 bucks for an mp3 is a ridiculous stupid price. However, if you have a IEM or headphone that cost the same or even twice as much, everything makes sense. Because, there are just people in this world have too many money to burn and will pay anything for a good sound. P.S. That's including me, hope a full review come out soon, especially compare it to HM-902 and DX100 . Hope this thing can make me bring my HD800 and T1 outside~~~~~~ |
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