Astell & Kern – A&Ultima SP2000

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The undisputed star in the audio-player sky and winner of the Headfonia Best Product Award 2020, to name just one. The Astell & Kern A&Ultima SP2000 sounds so good, it rivals even the crème de la crème of home-audio components. Hard to say, how anyone could ever rival this masterpiece in terms of sound and in terms of design, material and craftmanship. Now that it is Roon-ready, it’s perfect!

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Astell & Kern – A&Ultima SP2000

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Astell & Kern – A&Ultima SP2000

The Astell & Kern – A&Ultima SP2000 product line enters its third round with the new flagship – the SP2000. And it comes with the following features:

Newly developed audio circuits as well as amplifier designs.
Stainless steel and copper enclosure for the best acoustics
Dual DAC of AKM’s AK4499EQ
Native playback of 32bit/768kHz PCM and DSD512 without compression or loss
Dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4/5GHz)
Twice as much internal memory as previous models
Improved audio output performance and greater acoustic detail

Newly developed audio circuit on Astell & Kern – A&Ultima SP2000

The SP2000 is the first Astell&Kern player to use separate, independent audio channels between the unbalanced and balanced outputs. Consequently, with 6Vrms for the balanced output and 3Vrms for the unbalanced output, the Hi-Res player has much more power than ever before. With this design, Astell&Kern’s SP2000 player offers the ultimate audio experience.

Asahi Kasei’s advanced DAC chips, Dual AK4499EQ

The AK4499EQ DAC chip uses ‘Current Output Architecture’ technology. To take full advantage of this new technology, Astell&Kern has completely redesigned the operational amplifier and analog amplifier block. The new circuit design optimizes power consumption and gets the most out of these new DAC chips. Thus, the combination of the SP2000 and AK4499EQ chips provides stunning audio quality.

32bit/768kHz, Native DSD22.4MHz Support

Dual Band Wi-Fi (2.4/5GHz)

Twice the Internal Storage (512GB)

With the increasing popularity of CD ripping and offline storage of streaming content, the SP2000 offers twice the amount of internal storage compared to the SP1000. 512 GB of internal storage can hold up to 700+ CDs or 8,000+ tracks of FLAC files (60 MB/track).

32bit/768kHz, Native DSD22.4MHz Support

The SP2000 Hi-Res Player is the first of its kind from Astell&Kern to natively playback 32bit/768kHz and DSD512 (22.4MHz) without compression or loss.

Dual Band Wi-Fi (2.4/5GHz) on Astell & Kern – A&Ultima SP2000

Strong and reliable network reception is more important than ever nowadays with great popularity of music streaming services. The SP2000 supports dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4/5GHz, a/b/g/n/ac) with an improved 3-dimensional antenna design. With a strong Wi-Fi signal and faster speeds, audiophile streaming on the SP2000 is better than ever.

SP2000 vs SP1000

DAC: AKM AK4499EQ x2 (Dual DAC) vs AKM AK4497EQ x2 (Dual DAC)

Output Level: Unbalanced 3.0Vrms; Balanced 6.0Vrms (Condition No Load) vs Unbalanced 2.2Vrms; Balanced 3.9Vrms (Condition No Load)

SNR: Unbalanced 124dB at 1kHz; Balanced 125dB at 1kHz vs Unbalanced 120dB at 1kHz; Balanced 122dB at 1kHz

THD+N: Unbalanced 0.0005% at 1kHz; Balanced 0.0004% at 1kHz vs Unbalanced 0.0005% at 1kHz; Balanced 0.0008% at 1kHz

* SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) As the signal-to-noise ratio increases, the clearer the sound becomes.
* THD+N (THD + Noise, Distortion) over the THD + Noise signal rate, less distortion is heard.

Roon Ready network players

Roon Ready network players have Roon’s high-resolution streaming technology already built in. They combine ease of setup, day-to-day reliability, and support for the highest level of digital audio performance in the industry. In addition, every Roon Ready player is certified by Roon.

MQA (Master Quality Authenticated)

The A&K A&norma SR25 player incorporates award-winning MQA technology, which allows it to play back MQA audio files and streams, reproducing the sound of the original master recording.

Visit mqa.co.uk for more information.