Engineered for the music lover, the gamer and anyone else that demands audio perfection, the HD5 Home Music System delivers up to 24 Bit audio at an exhilarating 150 Watts. It's not just loud though. The sound is so crisp and so clear, you'll hear new details in music you never heard before.
Features
- Crystal Clear Audio
- Flexible Connectivity Options
- Bluetooth Connectivity with apt-X HD
- High-fidelity 150-Watt Class AB Amplifier
- Real Wood Cabinets
Cabinet Design
To minimize unwanted resonances and distortion, Audioengine cabinets have thick high-resin MDF walls with extensive internal bracing. Heavy internal sound-damping material is used to reduce unwanted sound reflections inside the cabinet. All cabinet edges are rounded which look great and reduce high-frequency diffraction effects on the front baffles. The HD5 cabinet contains tuned, rear-port slots.
Driver Design
Audioengine uses audiophile-quality, ferrofluid-cooled silk dome tweeters with neodymium magnets. Silk tweeters hold up well under high power and the edge-driven design gives very smooth response. The woofers are aramid fiber woven glass composite with rubber surrounds. Aramid fiber is obviously very strong, which means the woofer retains its shape when being driven at high levels. The HD5 woofers are housed in cast aluminum frames which provide high rigidity and increased heat dispersion.
High-Quality Bluetooth Audio
The Bluetooth built into the HD5 powered speakers features aptX HD coding which is an advanced Bluetooth audio codec with very impressive sound. And even if your phone or tablet does not have aptX HD, the HD5 Bluetooth solution is backwards-compatible with SBC and AAC codecs, as well as standard aptX, so you can wirelessly stream music from any Bluetooth-enabled device and still enjoy all your music. High-fidelity Bluetooth aptX HD that really works and sounds great.
24-bit DAC
The HD5 includes an AKM AK4396A DAC, widely known for its low-noise and high-fidelity. The optical input configures the AK4396A as a bit-perfect 24 bit DAC, which will process sample rates up to 192kHz natively. But for Bluetooth the AK4396A is used as an upsampling DAC and will pad all bit depths to 24 bit, achieving a higher signal-to-noise ratio and lower noise floor. Due to the high signal-to-noise specs of the AK4396A, the fact that digital signal is upsampled to 24 bit as well as the added benefit of onboard triple redundancy power source conversion and filtering, the HD5 Bluetooth implementation presents impressive low noise and low distortion characteristics with a noticeable improvement over other Bluetooth devices.
