Dossier — Kiwi Ears AD1
The brochure speaks; the silicon answers. What follows is what each has said.
+ Vendor page › +Claims breakdown
| Claim | Bucket | Witnessed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCM 32-bit / 384 kHz | PCM | Alt 1, Subslot 2 — 16-bit PCM. Sample Rates Supported (kHz): 44.1 48 88.2 96 176.4 192 352.8 384Alt 2, Subslot 3 — 24-bit PCM. Sample Rates Supported (kHz): 44.1 48 88.2 96 176.4 192 352.8 384Alt 3, Subslot 4 — 32-bit PCM. Sample Rates Supported (kHz): 44.1 48 88.2 96 176.4 192 352.8 384 | ✓ Match |
Remarks
A clean concordance — and a quietly generous one. Kiwi Ears claims PCM to 32-bit / 384 kHz, and the descriptor meets it exactly: native 16-, 24-, and 32-bit containers, each carrying the full rate ladder from 44.1 all the way to 384 kHz. Nothing is rate-locked to a tier, and nothing is padded to fake a depth. Red Book material plays at its own 16-bit depth, native — the AD1 declares a true 16-bit alt rather than forcing everything up into a wider container.
On keying: the USB identity is a shared platform marque, not a mark unique to Kiwi Ears — the same vendor block carries the ddHiFi TC44Grip and the TRN Black Pearl. The host announced only the model string "AD1"; the descriptor declared the shared bridge, and the witnessing named the rest.
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