The popular high-resolution player "Astell&Kern AK100II" collaboration model with Kana Hanazawa will include a newly recorded high-resolution sound source!

Ltd. has started a project to release a special model "Astell&Kern AK100II Kana Hanazawa Collaboration Model" featuring voice actress Kana Hanazawa from the Astell&Kern brand of high-resolution audio players that the company handles. The project for the release of the model started in March 2015.

Kana Hanazawa is a leading voice actress. Her beautiful voice, which has always fascinated her fans, has been confirmed by the Acoustic Research Institute of Japan to extend beyond 20 kHz, and her "sweet, soft, gentle, yet interesting voice" has been proven to be made up of complex components with a strong overtone component in the high frequency range. The voice is said to be "sweet, soft, gentle, and yet interesting. This is the ideal voice for high-resolution recording.

The Astell&Kern AK100II is a high-resolution audio player that is very popular among audiophiles. DSD playback of up to 5.6 MHz (DSD to PCM conversion) is possible. An EQ that can be finely adjusted by the user in 10-band, 0.5dB increments according to the genre of music is also provided. Supported music formats are WAV, FLAC, MP3, WMA, OGG, APE, AAC, ALAC, AIFF, DFF, and DSF. Internal memory is 64 GB, and there is one microSD card slot for external memory up to 128 GB. The main unit measures 55 (W) x 111 (H) x 14.9 (D) and weighs 170 g. (*The above are specifications for the normal model.)

The planned collaborative model will be pre-installed with a high-resolution soundtrack of an original song newly recorded by Kana Hanazawa. The music will be composed by the hot artist "Mili". The recording engineer is Yuji Sugiyama, and the 24bit/192kHz high-resolution sound source will be produced. The silver body will be engraved with Kana Hanazawa's signature, and the case will be a fresh blue color with the original logo.