Audio-Technica Launches Its New Wooden Headphones – Kokutan & Asada Sakura
Audio-Technica, a leading innovator in transducer technology for over 50 years, continues its ongoing activities surrounding the introduction of its new Wooden Headphones – Kokutan & Asada Sakura Headphones. Combining design and comfortability, Audio-Technica’s wooden headphones continues to elevate your hi-fi listening experience, allowing you to enjoy high-quality natural sound along with the unique beauty of the wood.
ATH-AWKT (Kokutan) housing is made of fine ebony (striped) wood with a beautiful grain presence and a natural acoustic characteristic. Ebony has been used for many music instruments such as guitars, flutes, oboe and more. This headphone delivers a special “aura” with its striped grain and great sounded sonically.
ATH-AWAS (Asada Sakura) housing is made of Japanese cherry wood named “Asada Sakura”, a beauty traditional wood that has been adopted for luxuty furnitures previously. This model delivers a great classy red finish which compromises of an “artful” grain details with a superb acoustic sound.
To Deliver a Comfortable Fit and Hi-Fi Listening Pleasure
With the recent trend in the Hi-Fi market, these headphones come with a detachable balanced cable with XLR plug and a standard detachable cable with φ6.3 mm stereo plus to achieve a Hi-Fi listening sound.
Kokutan (ATH-AWKT) Features:
- New Exclusive Driver-Unit – Adopting Audio-Technica’s traditional technologies from our 53mm driver, D.A.D.S.(Double Air Damping System), an exclusive design driver-unit was made to create a wider sound field with the highest purity of sound.
- Ebony Wood: Material with Great Acoustic Characteristics – Ebony is excellent in acoustic characteristics and has been used for piano and wind-wood instruments. With Ebony, one can avoid unclear-sound by suppression of unwanted resonance.
- Magnesium Alloy Arm – Lightweight and high-rigidity. The angle of the housing and arm is also revised for better comfort, making it easy for long hours of listening.
- Balanced Connector – L/R channel separating sound for Hi-Fi listening with a detachable balanced cable of XLR plug. Cables made of 6NOFC wires, giving a high-definition and powerful sound listening.
- Made in Japan – Hand-essembled in Tokyo, Japan for absolute consistency.
Technology OF D.A.D.S. / Earpads & Headband
D.A.D.S. (Double Air Damping System)
Audio-Technica’s unique technology, employed throughout our range of hi-fi closed-back headphones, divides the housing structure into two separate acoustic chambers for smooth bass reproduction.
Magnesium alloy arm
The lightweight and highly rigid headphone housing arm is made of magnesium alloy. The angle of the arm has been designed to provide the best fit for these closed-back headphones, improving the earcup seal so that all reproduced sound can be heard.
Sheep skin earpads and headband
Smooth, high-durability sheep skin is used for the stitched, ergonomic earpads and the headband, providing a comfortable fit for long listening sessions.
Housing Material + Balanced Connector + Craftmenship
Ebony (Striped)
Ebony is used for luxurious furnities, wind-instruments and piano, which provides a super acoustic characteristics and suppresses vibrations. Besides being a damping material, it helps to avoid unwanted distortion and hence, making a clear sound.
Detachable A2DC connectors
The detachable connectors have been designed for exceptional audio quality and durability. They provide a secure connection for stable signal transmission and are built to handle long listening sessions.
Balanced connection-compatible (for better channel separation)
In addition to a 3.0m detachable cable with 6.3mm plug, a 3.0m detachable balanced cable with XLR connector is included to provide compatibility with the latest hi-fi listening technology. 6N-OFC wire, a high-purity, oxygen-free copper, is used for both cables to a high-quality sound transmission.
Japanese craftsmanship
These headphones are hand-assembled at our factory in Naruse, Tokyo, where all of our wooden headphones have been produced. The wooden housings’ natural half-gloss finish is carefully polished and painted one by one by hand.
Accessories
Detachable cable with 6.3mm stereo plug (elastomer sheath, OFC)
Detachable balanced cable with 4-pin XLR (elastomer sheath, 6N-OFC)
Kokutan (ATH-AWKT) Specifications:
| Type | Closed-back dynamic |
| Driver | 53 mm |
| Sensitivity | 102 dB/mW |
| Frequency response | 5 to 45,000 Hz |
| Maximum input power | 2,000 mW |
| Impedance | 48 ohms |
| Input jack | A2DC connector jack |
| Weight (without cable) | Approx. 405 g (14.3 oz) |
Included accessories:
Cable (3.0 m (9.8')/6.3 mm (1/4") gold-plated stereo plug)
Balanced cable (3.0 m (9.8')/XLR-M connector (4-pin))
Sold separately: Cable, Balanced cable, Earpads
Audio-Technica’s new Kokutan headphones will be available for purchase in Singapore at MRSP S$2598.
Asada Sakura (ATH-AWAS) Features:
- New Exclusive Driver-Unit – Adopting Audio-Technica’s traditional technologies from our 53mm driver, D.A.D.S.(Double Air Damping System), an exclusive design driver-unit was made to create a wider sound field with the highest purity of sound.
- Asada Sakura Wood: Material of Good Acoustic Characteristics – Asada Sakura is excellent in acoustic characteristics thanks to its fine-grain
- Magnesium Alloy Arm – Lightweight and high-rigidity. The angle of the housing and arm is also revised for better comfort, making it easy for long hours of listening.
- Balanced Connector – L/R channel separating sound for Hi-Fi listening with a detachable balanced cable of XLR plug. Cables made of 6NOFC wires, giving a high-definition and powerful sound listening.
- Made in Japan – Hand-essembled in Tokyo, Japan for absolute consistency.
Technology OF D.A.D.S. / Earpads & Headband
D.A.D.S (Double Air Damping System)
Audio-Technica’s unique technology, employed throughout our range of hi-fi closed back headphones, divides the housing structure into two separate acoustic chambers for smooth bass reproduction.
Magnesium alloy arm
The lightweight and highly rigid headphone housing arm is made of magnesium alloy. The angle of the arm has been designed to provide the best fit for these closed-back headphones, improving the earcup seal so that all reproduced sound can be heard.
Smooth, synthetic leather headband and earpads
With a smooth touch and feel, the synthetic leather seals in sound and provides a comfortable fit for long listening sessions.
Housing Material + Balanced Connector + Craftmenship
Asada Sakura (Japanese Cherry)
Traditional wood found in Japan with a fine smooth grained that has a good acoustic characterisitic, mainly used as a material of Hi-Fi speaker-box.
Detachable A2DC connectors
The detachable connectors have been designed for exceptional audio quality and durability. They provide a secure connection for stable signal transmission and are built to handle long listening sessions.
Balanced connection-compatible (for better channel separation)
In addition to a 3.0m detachable cable with 6.3mm plug, a 3.0m detachable balanced cable with XLR connector is included to provide compatibility with the latest hi-fi listening technology. OFC wire, a high purity, oxygen-free copper, is used for a high-quality sound transmission.
Japanese craftsmanship
These headphones are hand-assembled at our factory in Naruse, Tokyo, where all of our wooden headphones have been produced. The wooden housings’ natural half-gloss finish is carefully polished and painted one by one by hand.
Accessories
Detachable cable with 6.3mm stereo plug (elastomer sheath, OFC)
Detachable balanced cable with 4-pin XLR (elastomer sheath, OFC)
Asada Sakura (ATH-AWAS) Specifications:
| Type | Closed-back dynamic |
| Driver | 53 mm |
| Sensitivity | 99 dB/mW |
| Frequency response | 5 to 42,000 Hz |
| Maximum input power | 2,000 mW |
| Impedance | 40 ohms |
| Input jack | A2DC connector jack |
| Weight (without cable) | Approx. 395 g (13.9 oz) |
Included accessories:
Cable (3.0 m (9.8')/6.3 mm (1/4") gold-plated stereo plug)
Balanced cable (3.0 m (9.8')/XLR-M connector (4-pin))
Sold separately: Cable, Balanced cable, Earpads
Audio-Technica’s new Asada Sakura headphones will be available for purchase in Singapore at MRSP S$1868.
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About Audio-Technica
Founded in 1962, Audio-Technica established itself in the Japanese domestic market with the success of phonograph cartridges. A decade later, the company diversified and focused on the specialization of manufacturing sound devices. Since 1994, Audio-Technica has continued to meet and identify new market environments, customer needs and technological advancements. This is best reflected in the superior sound quality delivered by the various series ranging from wired and wireless microphones to headphones.
Audio-Technica’s primary goals have always been to provide products that truly satisfy its customers as well as beneficial to society. The Company has always strived to take on an innovative approach to development, using excellent technology and marketing capabilities to build a strong brand image.
Today, Audio-Technica boasts an extensive and diversified business portfolio encompassing both consumer and professional use of its various audio and video equipment, telecommunications and computer components and accessories, optoelectrics products and food production equipment. The Company aims to forge ahead, playing a major role in the technological advancement of superior sound quality from Audio-Technica’s creation of audio products.
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