Astell&Kern KANN Alpha

Astell&Kern specializes in portable music players that deliver detailed, nuanced sound with your library of digital music files. The KANN Alpha has both unbalanced and balanced outputs, so it can handle even the most demanding high-performance headphones. And it can play from a variety of high-resolution digital music sources, with Wi-Fi built-in to expand your listening options. The KANN Alpha plays your downloaded high-res FLAC, WAV, and Direct Stream Digital (DSD) files in their native resolution. Dual high-quality digital-to-analog converters (DACs) give you bit-perfect playback for PCM-based files up to 32-bit/384kHz. The player is compatible with MQA, a high-resolution audio format used in TIDAL's "Masters" streaming music service tier and by other music download sites on the web. And don't worry — the KANN Alpha delivers surprisingly detailed sound with your CD-quality and compressed music files, too. The player has Bluetooth 5.0 built-in, which offers better sound and increased range when listening...