Astell & Kern AK500N Instruction Book page 9

Product
The AK500N is the first stationary network audio product from Astell&Kern that truly combines advanced
digital technology with analog sound.
Overview
Perfect Extractor
How are you enjoying your precious CD collection?
Are you still listening to your music one CD at a time?
Import your CD collection into the AK500N with the one click.
By taking the acclaimed cdparanoia's CD ripper, in its highly-optimized ripping engine, the AK500N provides
users with flawless CD rips through enhanced jitter and error correction support.
The highest sound quality is captured with enhanced jitter correction and excellent CD track error detection
and correction.
Two speeds (Normal / Fast) are available for CD-ripping, and the tracks can be saved in either WAV or FLAC.
In addition, Album art and music data are automatically imported from Gracenote's latest music DB.
Gracenote is the most well-recognized and accurate source of music DB in the world.
Also, touch the keypad to enter the CD title, artist, genre, year of release information yourself.
Pure Sound
A common factor in devices operating in AC power is that the AC power supply is a point of entry for
unwanted external noise and exit for device noise. These are the main causes of sound quality degradation.
The AK500N does not allow even 1% of external noise.
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