Astell & Kern SP 3000 portable hi-res music player (silver)

Description

Astell&Kern's best player yet Astell&Kern has over 10 years of experience creating high-performance portable music players. That expertise comes together in the A&ultima SP3000, the new flagship of their A&ultima series . Its innovative, custom-designed electronics deliver the most accurate and detailed sound of any Astell&Kern player to date. Beautiful, innovative design The player has a sculpted, high-grade stainless steel casing that is virtually impervious to scratches. The large, 5.46" high-definition touchscreen makes navigation simple and information easy to read. The side-mounted volume control features an LED ring. The colors on this ring indicate volume level as well as audio bit rate. Advanced DAC chips and patented signal processing The SP3000 has a unique digital-to-analog converter system that uses a total of six high-grade AKM DACs: four top-of-line AK4499EX chips and two AK4191EQ chips. The circuit is designed to keep the digital and analog sections separate, physically isolated by silver-plated shielding, for vanishingly low noise. High-quality DAC chips are only part of the story. Astell&Kern's Teraton Alpha design philosophy uses a series of patented circuits to improve every part of the signal chain. This remarkable system first scrubs incoming power of unwanted noise. Next, the all-important digital-to-analog conversion step features custom circuitry to handle the audio signal with care. And the player's efficient amplifier technology delivers strong, low-distortion power to feed your high-performance headphones. Bottom line: this is the cleanest, most accurate sound ever produced by an Astell&Kern player. And that's saying a lot. Made for high-res sound The SP3000 can do native playback of Direct Stream Digital (DSD) files up to 22.4MHz. And it can deliver bit-perfect playback for PCM-based files up to 32-bit/768kHz. You'll hear an extraordinary amount of detail from your CD-quality and compressed music files, too.