Car Audio
Car Audio
Premium quality audio and customisation
Engineered for ultimate listening pleasure—ESS digital-to-analogue converter
Experience the calibre of sound usually reserved for high-end home audio products, thanks to the ESS DAC chip—a premium converter that provides precision analogue conversion for all your digital music files. With high-performance 32-bit processing, and a design that eliminates timing jitter, this D/A converter delivers unprecedented dynamic range and low harmonic distortion.
Choices for optimum performance
Carefully selected components ensure superb sound quality. The dedicated choke coil features powerful bass while filtering unwanted frequencies for controlled and dynamic audio reproduction. Audiophile-grade capacitors deliver effortless power for clear and tight bass, while multi-layer polymer capacitors help ensure natural sound character.
Built-in 4-channel Class A/B Amp for High-Resolution Audio
Dedicated left and right power circuits provide consistent, filtered power to the built-in amplifier, for accurate sound staging. The amplifier block itself also incorporates a range of updated circuit configurations to minimise interference, including a new volume control IC carefully selected for minimal distortion and noise.
Anti-resonance dual-layer chassis
The dual-layer design of the chassis separates analogue and digital circuitry, preventing electro-magnetic interference for uncompromised sound quality.
High-Resolution wireless LDAC™ audio
Enjoy the convenience of Bluetooth® wireless audio and exceptional sound quality thanks to LDAC. Connect compatible devices to stream audio at 96 kHz / 24-bit quality, with bitrates up to 3x higher (990 kbps) than conventional Bluetooth.
High-grade 192 kHz / 24‑bit DSP
The 192 kHz / 24-bit DSP offers pristine sound processing and 8-band parametric equaliser in addition to the time alignment and 14-band equaliser. Together with the updated 3-zone crossover, which enables bi-amp front 2-way speaker drive settings, you can create the perfect match of front, rear and subwoofers.
6-channel time alignment
The powerful DSP enables incredibly precise time-alignment, for accurate sound imaging in any car. You can align individual speaker distances to as little as 1 cm or 0.1 inch increments from your seat position.
14-band equaliser
A 14-band EQ lets you adjust the overall sound to your music or taste, allowing you to manually cut and boost 14 different frequencies for all the speaker and subwoofer outputs at the same time.
8-band parametric EQ
To get optimum performance across different speaker configurations, you can apply an 8-band parametric EQ to each of the 6 channels (FL, FR, RL, RR, SWL, SWR) independently by cutting and boosting 8 custom frequencies for each individual speaker output and subwoofer output. You can also adjust the bandwidth (Q) for each of the 8 select frequencies of the speaker and subwoofer outputs.
Bi-amp front 2-way speaker drive settings
Unlike regular speaker configurations such as those for front and rear speakers, this mode allows you to customise the four speaker outputs by assigning two channels for the tweeters and other two channels for the woofers with band path crossover settings and dedicated time alignment.
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