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Craft Your Sound

Finding the sound that truly suits you is the first step toward the essence of music. PD20 is designed to guide you on that journey.
Our first step in this journey was to start from the very beginning. Rather than creating a successor to the PD10, we created an entirely new audio device that will redefine your musical experience.

Through Personal Sound, you can create a sound signature tailored to your hearing, then precisely refine it to your taste using the Sound Master Wheel. An intuitive control that allows even the amplifier driving mode to be changed with a single touch. Now, music is not just something you listen to. It is something you shape.

 

  • The first DAP to support personalized sound through a hearing test
  • 160-step EQ control via the Sound Master Wheel
  • Triple AMP Class with real-time switching
  • Class A current control with High / Mid / Low modes
  • Proprietary ESA (Enhanced Signal Alignment) technology to minimize group delay
  • Advanced DAR

 

Exceptional resolution and high-purity sound, ES9027PRO Quad-DAC

Designed with a singular focus on sound quality, PD20 adopts the ESS ES9027PRO DAC in a Quad-DAC configuration.


Four DACs operate independently to minimize inter-channel interference and deliver precise signal separation. As a result, even the finest nuances in sound are revealed with greater clarity, creating a natural, analog-like presentation through clean, distortion-free layering.

 

Minimizing Group Delay with Proprietary ESA (Enhanced Signal Alignment) Technology

Through its in-house developed ESA (Enhanced Signal Alignment) technology, PD20 significantly improves one of the fundamental challenges in audio reproduction—group delay. ESA precisely aligns frequency signals so they arrive more uniformly, minimizing frequency distortion and enhancing clarity and cleanliness of sound.

 

Specifications

  • Model 

    PD20

  • Body Color 

    Silver

  • Body Material 

    Aluminum

  • Display 

    6inch 2160 x 1080 Touch screen

  • Supported Audio Formats 

    WAV, FLAC, WMA, MP3, OGG, APE, AAC, ALAC, AIFF, DFF, DSF

  • Sample rate 

    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), Stereo / DSD512(1bit 22.4MHz), Stereo

  • Output Level 

    Unbalanced 5Vrms │ Balanced 10Vrms (Condition No Load)

  • CPU 

    Octa-Core

  • DAC 

    ESS ES9027PRO x4 (Quad-DAC)

  • Decoding 

    Support up to 32bit / 768kHz Bit to Bit playback

  • Input 

    USB Type-C input (for Charging & PC & MAC)

  • Outputs 

    Unbalanced Out (3.5mm), Optical Out(3.5mm)
    Balanced Out (4.4mm, only 5-pole supported)

  • Wi-Fi 

    802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4/5GHz)

  • Bluetooth 

    V5.3 (A2DP, AVRCP, Qualcomm® aptX™ HD, LDAC, LHDC, SBC, AAC)

  • Dimensions 

    3.05” (77.5mm)[W] x 6.12” (155.7mm)[H] x 0.68” (17.3mm)[D]

  • Weight 

    about 11.04oz (313g)

  • Feature Enhancements 

    Firmware upgrade supported (OTA)

  • Operating Temperature 

    0℃ ~ + 40℃ (32℉~ 104℉)

Astell and Kern PD20 | Digital Audio Player

SKU: AAKPD20
$2,599.00Price
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For items not currently in stock, estimated delivery is approximately 1–4 weeks. All sales are final.
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