Audioengine HD6 Premium Powered Speakers

A major milestone in the world of high-end wireless audio system has been set once again by Audioengine with its latest innovation and most advanced & versatile powered speaker system, the HD6 Premium Powered Speakers. From the moment of its debut, HD6 has then continually received lots of positive reviews and feedbacks from audiophiles who are more than satisfied with this A5+ upstage. You wouldn’t even wonder why this is considered as Audioengine’s best speaker today once we get to explain what’s inside this audiophile version of treasure chest.

With covers made of furniture-grade wood veneers and detachable magnetic grills, HD6 gives a look and feel of a classic elegance that offers wide choice for complementing home furnishing with its 3 handsome finish options of black satin paint, cherry and walnut veneers.

This model has upgraded crossover components with a much more efficient system that requires less power than passive speakers. And to make it super easy to connect your other audio products such as smartphone, tablet, computer, TV, and network player, HD6 has a separate integrated amplifier all built into the left speaker, which in any case is not just a standard built-in amp but an analog dual-class A/B monolithic amplifier that provides excellent quality audio and greater flexibility, allowing you to save space and eliminate the need to connect HD6 to a stereo receiver or external power amp. This kind of amp uses up to 150 watts which generates quite a bit heat, but Audioengine already has this covered with the large heat sink attached at the back of the speaker to neutralize the heat level.

The HD6 uses 1” audiophile-quality silk dome tweeters that hold up well under high power with edge-driven design, providing an open and realistic high end, and extraordinary soundstage. Compared to A5+, it has thicker, low-resonance cabinet and larger redesigned 5.5” Kevlar woofers with die-cast aluminum frame, giving HD6 an advantage of better baffle system that optimizes the capacity of the speakers to generate louder, crispier, and deeper bass. Although Audioengine recommends best to give it a 40-50 hours break-in period before giving it a critical listening, according to an audiophile from Dagogo.com who also reviewed these speakers, HD6 is able to sound its best at 200 hours break-in.

What makes it more efficient is its adapted features from two of Audioengine’s best-selling products, the B1 Bluetooth Receiver and D1 24-bit DAC. It carries the aptX coding which is an advanced Bluetooth audio codec with very impressive sound quality, allowing up to 3-times extended wireless range of standard Bluetooth technology with no audio quality degradation. And even if your phone or tablet doesn’t have aptX, the HD6 Bluetooth solution is backwards-compatible with the mandatory default codecs supported by all Bluetooth stereo audio devices such as SBC (sub-band coding) and AAC (advanced audio coding), so you can wirelessly stream music from any Bluetooth-enabled device and still enjoy all your music.

The HD6 Bluetooth receiver and optical input both utilize the 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-bits, achieving a higher signal-to-noise ratio and lower noise floor. Due to high signal-to-noise specs of the AK4396A, the fact that digital signal is upsampled to 24-bits – as well as the added benefit of onboard triple redundancy power source conversion and filtering – the HD6 Bluetooth implementation presents impressive low noise and low distortion characteristics with a noticeable improvement over other Bluetooth devices.

So, if you’re still searching for a complete high-end, high-quality wireless audio system, Audioengine HD6 premium powered speakers is the all-in-one solution for it. Easy to set up, simple to use, and designed for the way people listen to music today.