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In contrast to the convectional approach of using mechanical coupling structures for enlarging the intensity differences, we exploited an electrical coupling network circuit composed of lumped elements to enhance the phase differences and extract the optimized output power for good signal-to-noise ratio. The separation distance between two sensors could be reduced from 0.5 wavelength to 0.1 wavelength 3.43 mm at the operation frequency of 10 kHz) for determining the angle of arrivals. The main advantages of the proposed device include low power losses, flexible designs, and wide operation bandwidths. A prototype was designed, fabricated, and experiments examined within a sound anechoic chamber. It was demonstrated that the proposed device had a phase enhancement of 110     \u00b0     at the incident angle of 90     \u00b0     and the normalized power level of \u22122.16 dB at both output ports. The received power levels of our device were 3 dB higher than those of the transformer-type direction-finding system. In addition, our proposed device could operate in the frequency range from 8 kHz to 12 kHz with a tunable capacitor. 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