Audio-Technica Naruto headphone amplifier/pre-amplifier “HPA-KG NARU” debuted at the Hong Kong Advanced Audio Show, priced at 660,000 Hong Kong dollars (Currently about RMB 610,000).
▲ Picture source Audio-Technica official account, the same below
According to the official introduction of Audio-Technica, the Mingshen series of headphone amplifiers adopts a balanced circuit structure on the HOT side and the COLD side of the left and right channels “regardless of cost”. The whole contains a total of four sets of balanced circuits, which are supplied to the left and right audio circuits. The current also comes from the left and right independent dedicated power transformers, providing a “stable and pure” current to achieve a transparent and rich sound quality with high separation and low noise.
The Naruto amplifier is decorated with black persimmon wood, and after more than a hundred years, it has formed a unique ink painting-like texture. The pattern dotted on the top of the amplifier is inspired by the traditional garden landscape of “Karesanshui”. The pattern runs along the sides of the amplifier, symbolizing flow and the symbol for infinity (∞).
The metal grille used to protect the electronic tube and output transformer adopts aya cedar pattern. As a unique tree species in Japan, Aya cedar is widely used in gardening and landscape design.
The Narushin amplifier is not only a headphone amplifier, but can also be used as a preamplifier. It can use the signal from the TA-300B tube-driven output transformer to drive a power amplifier, and can be used as a pre-amplifier for speakers.
In order to match the amplifier, the company specially designed a limited edition Narushin headphone “AW-KG NARU”, which uses the same black persimmon shell as the amplifier and performs special tuning. Each set comes with a special headphone cable.
