Astell&Kern, a global leader in high-end portable media players and home audio devices, has announced plans to launch it's new flagship portable high-resolution audio player, 'KANN', for the first time in Thailand.
Partnering with top Thailand headphone industry specialist Munkonggadget Co Ltd as its official distributor, Astell&Kern is poised to take the portable high-res audio industry to a whole new level. KANN features a sleek design with its glossy and durable aluminum body, allowing users to hold the device firmly in their hands. KANN also supports a variety of new file formats and media types while boasting an extended battery life that provides up to 15 hours of musical listening pleasure.
"Our brand excels in the market by gracefully overcoming challenging times in the portable digital media player sector. It shows that as a brand we are committed to develop products that respond to our customer's needs, while delivering a superior music listening experience,"said Astell&Kern, Product Manager, Alex An. "It has been almost one year since we have partnered with Munkonggadget as our authorised dealer. This collaboration is producing positive results and allowed us to impressively increase market share.
"With the launch of KANN, we continue to focus on manufacturing products for all serious audiophiles in Thailand by giving them the best possible hi-resolution sound quality and user listening experience in a powerful pocket sized package," Mr. An added.
Astell&Kern is a South Korean consumer electronics company founded in October 2013, as a wholly owned subsidiary of iRiver. In less than four years Astell&Kern has established widespread brand loyalty with its consumers. In January 2013, iriver debuted the AK100 media player at CES 2013, to critical acclaim.
KANN features a remarkable WVGA 4-inch touch screen, using DAC Chip AKM with a code AK4490, battery power capacity of 6200 mAh. and up to 15 hours of battery performance. A new internal amplifier with strong output is considered to be quite powerful for its small size. With an exceptional specs of hardware, it supports a wide range of music types. It has a capacity up to 832 GB (64 GB from the device), which is enough to store music files that are as large as DSD that has Bluetooth V4.0 and is Codec compatible A2DP, AVRCP, aptX™ HD with WIFI that can be used for OTA firmware updates or to stream music. In Thailand, KANN is available in silver bronze or blue and priced at THB 39,500 (US$ 1,145).
Munkonggadget also recently lived up to the hype of Astell&Kern with the other flagship portable media player A&ultima SP1000which was recently launched in Germany. This extraordinary device delivers deep and vivid sound with its combination of an independent DAC design applied to each left and right channel that offers a wider sound stage and delicately reproduced detailed sound. A&ultima is driven by an Octa-core processor that shortens startup time, file transfer, and processing time while making it more convenient to use.
Featuring a 5-inch high resolution screen with HD display, the A&ultima SP1000 transfers files twice as fast with USB Type-C connectivity while still enjoying up to 12 hours of battery life. Offered in stainless steel or copper, the A&ultima SP1000 will be available in Thailand from the end of May with a suggested retail price of THB 11,000.
Available for purchase and take your "KANN" experience on music listening to a whole another level and also the "A&utima SP1000" infomation at Munkonggadget stores or online channels at: https://www.munkonggadget.com/ andhttps://www.facebook.com/munkonggadget1/