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hey guys how you doing today audio head here with another review this time with the classic a K 100 by Elston current this is a digital audio player a high-res digital audio player let's come out about a year ago I think now but it is a phenomenal little player a great step up from the Apple product line it comes with a high-res playback obviously one of the best it does all the way up to 192 so it does as a wide variety of file type playback you can also check it out on the website they have a detailed list of every single file type but it is Fermoyle firmware upgradeable so that's good so any changes coming out in the future they can definitely adapt to those kind of things as you can see here the volume controls is kind of unique from at least all the Apple stuff and that has a physical volume knob control here it's a digital control but it works really well and I kind of like having that there you can reach into your pocket without looking at the screen and just the volume here and on this side let's see if I can get this looking good you can see three buttons the top one for track up track down and then pause play in the middle very cool because the once again you have to pull it out of your pocket you can just grip this thing and adjust away now you can also of course adjust things directly from the touch screen they have here which is pretty nice the track forward track back play here is the menu as you go back all songs album and artist scrolls playlist john ramos played mastering quality sound folder setting there's also an internal EQ available that you can toy around with but for the most part the interface is pretty awesome maybe not as slick as some of Apple's stuff up but I think it works absolutely fine only the most nitpicky or people who looking major Apple fans I think would have any problem with it whatsoever it is it works great it plays great and most of all what you're probably wondering is how does it sound this particular I think sounds absolutely phenomenal for in-ear monitors custom in-ear monitors is one of the best out there mainly because the background is absolutely black it black as it gets the details the dynamic kind of contrasts from black to white as you as you hear things is amazing it is so dark it sounds very unique in that regard it sounds very special in how black and the texture and just that kind of blank space on which to kind of paint the acoustic canvas if you all the canvas is so nice and black on top of that the fidelity is phenomenal when you think about it you have a player straight to a DAC and this end this particular chipset is the wolf's t'en is a Wolfson brand to an headphone amplifier so really you're getting kind of a nice package for the retail which is actually $6.99 so it is a deal more than the Apple but you're actually getting quite a bit for that in in in that you get like a real piece of high fidelity equipment here so as far as moving up to scale so in ear monitors they're kind of tricky you know they can oh they always reveal a lot of background noise that's that's the thing that's what makes them really tricky no problem with that so ever in fact some of the best kind of sound quality you can get from a custom in-ear monitor with these in fact I've seen them used that shows all the time from the big guys as a reference so that says a lot by itself but on top of that with a little it kind of Lamoure the low resistance headphones the LCD threes driven I've actually seen a disease use this in a demo as well so there it matches really well with those magnetic planar headphone styles the AH disease that are easier to drive so the he6 by - which is a very high impedance kind of hard to drive headphone will is probably not the best pairing for this I don't think it has enough juice for the that big boy but the disease line especially the closed back which is even easier to drive than the LCD 3 the LCD XC oh good match for these things if you are you have a really hard to drive headphone you may want to look at an external amplifier you can plug in one right I've done it before right here with to the headphone amplifier and you turn this all the way up to 75 at the top and I just one more thing you could actually see once you adjust this you can actually slide the volume with your finger as well so there are two ways to adjust the volume just as a side note any case headphone selection is is pretty good I think the sound quality with the right headphone is phenomenal they have recently bumped up the product line so there is one below this called the ak10 one above called the aka 120 and then now just a brand new flagship called the aka 41 I believe is much higher so the product line is really good and if that's any sign at all is how this unit is doing I think it is a very positive one so a really cool product if you get a chance to check it out I highly recommend it this is one of those products that I actually I do recommend in a big way it's a great product if you can afford it I know $6.99 isn't isn't in the pocket of everyone but as far as something that is a step up from your standard you know a lot of people play on their stuff on the phone if you want to step up from your phone and got the money to invest this is definitely a great place to start and like I said if you really want to go check out some of the higher models because they even go higher than this one but as a starting point you really do see some incremental better sound quality out of this out of then let's say your phone especially if you're looking at custom in-ear monitors so really fun stuff thank you guys for checking out the videos and subscribe if you can take it easy