{"id":126402,"date":"2024-01-31T21:12:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T21:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=126402"},"modified":"2024-02-01T04:08:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T04:08:05","slug":"astell-kern-ak-usb-c-dual-dac-improve-the-sound-of-gadgets-and-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/gadgets\/astell-kern-ak-usb-c-dual-dac-improve-the-sound-of-gadgets-and-laptops\/","title":{"rendered":"Astell & Kern AK USB-C Dual DAC: Improve the sound of gadgets and laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new model of\u00a0Astell & Kern AK USB-C Dual DAC Cable is presented<\/b>\u00a0.\u00a0It can be used with any Android, Windows or MacOS device.<\/p>\n

It is built on two\u00a0Cirrus Logic CS43198 MasterHIFi chips<\/b>\u00a0and provides native support for\u00a0DSD256<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0PCM 32\/384 streams<\/b>\u00a0.\u00a0Owners of iOS devices will not be able to take advantage of this DAC, since these devices do not provide sufficient output voltage for power.<\/p>\n

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In addition to the DAC, a small package of a zinc alloy is enclosed amplifier outputs a voltage to\u00a02<\/b>\u00a0.\u00a0The model uses a\u00a0USB-C<\/b>\u00a0port to connect to a source\u00a0, and a\u00a03.5 mm<\/b>\u00a0jack is provided for headphones\u00a0.\u00a0The built-in four-core cable features silver-plated and pure copper conductors and a\u00a0Technora<\/b>\u00a0aramid jacket\u00a0.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Astell<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Astell & Kern AK USB-C Dual DAC Cable<\/b>\u00a0weighs\u00a0only\u00a025 grams<\/b>\u00a0.\u00a0The novelty will be on sale in April 2021, its price in Europe will be about\u00a0130 euros<\/b>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

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A new model of\u00a0Astell & Kern AK USB-C Dual DAC Cable is presented\u00a0.\u00a0It can be used with any Android, Windows or MacOS device. It is built on two\u00a0Cirrus Logic CS43198 MasterHIFi chips\u00a0and provides native support for\u00a0DSD256\u00a0and\u00a0PCM 32\/384 streams\u00a0.\u00a0Owners of iOS devices will not be able to take advantage of this DAC, since these devices do […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":178697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-126402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}