![]() ![]() However, the AK100’s original firmware did not allow it to play AAC (Apple Audio Codec/MP4) files. (Remember the Rio? That was theirs, too.) The AK100 is iRiver’s marquee product (the Astell&Kern moniker’s origins are obscure, at least to me), a pocket-size solid-state player that can reproduce both standard MP3 files and high-rez audio in formats including FLAC, Ogg, WAV, and WMA, carrying up to 192-kHz/24-bit resolutions, through legitimately high-end digital-to-analog and headphone-amplification electronics. Astell&Kern is a new upscale brand from iRiver, one of the very few MP3-portable makers surviving from the pre-iPod/iPhone age. Who cares what it is or what it does? You just want to hold it. ![]() First, the obvious: The Astell&Kern AK100 is beautiful, both visually and in tactile terms, much the same way as the first iPod you ever saw was.
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