While the AK380 creates a new apex for A&K portable range, this is a unit that can go beyond its portable duties.
The AK380 makes a high quality DAC for your Mac or Windows computer, and can connect to your home Wi-Fi network to stream music served across your network by a DLNA server. In these tasks it has a rare level of codec compatibility — WAV, FLAC, WMA, MP3, OGG, APE, AAC, ALAC, AIFF, DFF, DSF.
You navigate the AK380 via its touchscreen, with the usual swiping and touch-toselect facilities. Access to settings is by swiping down from the top to reveal icons which take you into a deeper menu system.
For output you get a 3.5mm headphone socket which doubles as a line-level output socket. There’s also a…
