A&K flagship DAP combines luxury design with high-end audio tech

New Atlas | Sep 13, 2022 at 2:02 PM
  • Folks who are serious about their mobile music will already be familiar with South Korea’s Astell&Kern.
  • A&K’s digital audio players all share a similar boxy design rocking diamond shapes and sculpted angles, but the latest flagship is the first portable player in the world to boast a watch-grade 904L stainless steel body, resulting in “an object of beauty that made to last.”
  • And A&K has included an option to generate a user-tunable loudspeaker listening feel to reduce fatigue, where the technology “mixes parts of the original signal from one channel and sends that signal to the opposite channel with a time difference to center the sound image.”