The Astell & Kern Kann is, in my book, the best portable music player you can buy. It’s got a huge 6,200mAh battery, a sweetly melodic AKM AK4490 DAC, a beefy amplifier that can feed the most demanding of headphones, and USB-C charging. It also costs a mighty $999. Now imagine A&K took each one of those specs and cranked it up to 11. That’s how you arrive at the newly unveiled $1,499 Astell & Kern Kann Cube, the spectacularly high-specced second generation of the Kann line.
For Astell & Kern, the Kann series of devices goes under the tagline of “one player to rule them all.” The company has fancier and pricier PMPs to sell, such as the $3,499 A&ultima, but those tend to sacrifice some battery life for the sake of sleeker design. Plus,…
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