Three pillars

Built to put you closer to the master.

There's no social feed or algorithmic radio in Kord. It plays the music you already own, and every feature has to earn its place by getting you closer to the recording.

01 — PLAYBACK

Lossless, the literal sense

Kord decodes FLAC bit-for-bit and hands the samples to your DAC exactly as they were mastered. No sample-rate conversion, no system mixer in the path, no secret normalization.

  • Bit-perfect output — no resampling
  • Automatic sample-rate switching to match the file
  • Direct USB-C DAC output on iPhone, exclusive hardware access on Mac
Kord's Now Playing screen on iPhone — 'Come Together' by The Beatles playing in lossless FLAC 24/96, with a waveform scrubber and signal-path badge
02 — TUNING

Parametric EQ, per band

Shape the sound with real control: choose center frequency, gain, and Q for each band. Correct a bright headphone, tame a room mode, or build a curve and save it.

  • Frequency · gain · Q on every band
  • Saveable presets per device
  • Bypass to A/B instantly
Kord's parametric EQ on iPhone — a five-band editor with low shelf, bell, and high shelf filters, each showing its frequency, plus a pre-amp control
03 — LIBRARY

A library that organizes itself

Point Kord at your music folder and it reads the tags, groups albums and artists, finds artwork, and keeps everything tidy. By the time you press play, the filing is already done.

  • Automatic album & artist grouping
  • Artwork fetched and embedded
  • Browse by artist, album, or decade
Kord's library on iPhone — an auto-organized Home view with an artist spotlight, recently added albums, and a hi-res shelf, all showing fetched artwork

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