{"id":139275,"date":"2022-01-07T06:16:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T06:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=139275"},"modified":"2022-01-07T06:17:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T06:17:40","slug":"astell-kern-acro-ca1000-headphone-dac-amplifier-with-built-in-8400-mah-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/astell-kern-acro-ca1000-headphone-dac-amplifier-with-built-in-8400-mah-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Astell &#038; Kern ACRO CA1000: Headphone DAC amplifier with built-in 8400 mAh battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astell &amp; Kern\u00a0, known for premium players, has released a portable DAC headphone amplifier.\u00a0The amp was dubbed the ACRO CA1000\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>As the developers explained, their DAC is ideal for headphones with 15V RMS output voltage.\u00a0The device is equipped with an\u00a0ESS ES9068AS\u00a0chip\u00a0and is powered by a built-in 8400 mAh battery.\u00a0The CA1000 can also be operated from a network.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_139276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Astell-Kern-ACRO-CA1000.jpg\" alt=\"Astell &amp; Kern ACRO CA1000\" width=\"1280\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Astell-Kern-ACRO-CA1000.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Astell-Kern-ACRO-CA1000-800x438.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Astell-Kern-ACRO-CA1000-1080x591.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Astell-Kern-ACRO-CA1000-909x498.jpg 909w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Astell-Kern-ACRO-CA1000-432x237.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Astell-Kern-ACRO-CA1000-560x307.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-139276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astell &amp; Kern ACRO CA1000<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the case, users will find four connectors: 6.5mm and 3.5mm, as well as balanced 2.5mm and 4.4mm.\u00a0The DAC can be included in the system.\u00a0For this,\u00a0USB\u00a0,\u00a0Toslink\u00a0and analog\u00a0RCA\u00a0connectors are provided\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>The device\u00a0accepts\u00a032 bit \/ 384 kHz PCM\u00a0and\u00a0DSD512 signals\u00a0.\u00a0The signal can be transmitted via\u00a0Bluetooth\u00a0version 5.0 with support for\u00a0aptX HD\u00a0and\u00a0LDAC codecs\u00a0.\u00a0Support declaredWi-Fi\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>The 60 \u00b0 tiltable screen displays important information as well as information about the song being played.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astellnkern.com\/\">Astell &amp; Kern<\/a> ACRO CA1000\u00a0has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astell &amp; Kern\u00a0, known for premium players, has released a portable DAC headphone amplifier.\u00a0The amp was dubbed the ACRO CA1000\u00a0. As the developers explained, their DAC is ideal for headphones with 15V RMS output voltage.\u00a0The device is equipped with an\u00a0ESS ES9068AS\u00a0chip\u00a0and is powered by a built-in 8400 mAh battery.\u00a0The CA1000 can also be operated from [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/astell-kern-acro-ca1000-headphone-dac-amplifier-with-built-in-8400-mah-battery\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":139276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-139275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}