The KANN MAX is Astell & Kern's fourth product in the KANN series of portable music players. This KANN MAX is the winner of 2022 Red Dot award for best new products created in 2022. The design is immaculate, beautiful yet angular. Its based on high output (more power to drive the most difficult headphones) and clear sound (to make all of us audiophiles giddy when listening to it work its magic). The engineers at AK gave it 4 different levels of gain and up to 15Vrms output. On top of this they made it lighter and more compact size to fit in your pocket. They have put the ESS ES9038Q2M Quad-DAC together with AStell & Kerns famous DAP technology to create the next best giant killer.
We believe that this DAP will be in Astell & Kern's product mix for many years to come. Please get your orders in ASAP to get in the que, Due to supply chain problems the first order won't last long. We are accepting pre-orders now
Here are the manufacturers specs:
KANN MAX
Anthracite Gray
Aluminum
4.1-inch 720 x 1280 touch screen
WAV, FLAC, WMA, MP3, OGG, APE, AAC, ALAC, AIFF, DFF, DSF, MQA
PCM : 8kHz ~ 768kHz (8/16/24/32bits per Sample)
DSD Native: DSD64(1bit 2.8MHz), Stereo / DSD128(1bit 5.6MHz), Stereo / DSD256(1bit 11.2MHz), DSD512(1bit, 22.4MHz) Stereo
[Low] Unbalanced 2Vrms / Balanced 4Vrms (Condition No Load),
[Mid] Unbalanced 4Vrms / Balanced 8Vrms (Condition No Load),
[High] Unbalanced 6Vrms / Balanced 12Vrms (Condition No Load),
[Super] Unbalanced 8Vrms / Balanced 15Vrms (Condition No Load)
Quad-core
ESS ES9038Q2M x4 (Quad-DAC)
Support up to 32-bit/768kHz Bit-to-Bit Playback
USB Type-C input (for charging & PC & MAC)
Unbalanced Out (3.5mm), Optical Out (3.5mm)
Balanced Out (2.5mm, only 4-pole supported | 4.4m, only 5-pole supported)
802.11 b/g/n (2.4GHz)
V5.0 (A2DP, AVRCP, Qualcomm® aptX™ HD, LDAC)
2.68"(68.3mm)[W] x 4.6"(117mm)[H] x 0.92"(23.6mm)[D]
about 10.76oz (305g)
Firmware upgrade supported (OTA)
0℃ ~ + 40℃ (32℉~ 104℉
5,600mAh 3.8V Li-Polymer
about 3.5 hours (9V 1.67A Fast Charging) | 5.5hours (5V 2A General Charging)
about 13 hours (Standard: FLAC, 16bit, 44.1kHz, Unbalanced, Vol.40, LCD Off, LED On, Low Gain)Memory
64GB [NAND]
microSD x1 (Max. 1TB