Rockna Wavelight thoughts?


Rockna's new wavelight looks great at ~$5K, im guessing it sounds similar to the acclaimed big brother wavedream, very little reviews/impressions so far though, anyone have one or plan to order? im looking to try a good R2R. denafrips terminator was just OK in my system. i especially wonder how wavelight performs vs la voce s3 which is a similar price. couldnt find any dealers that would home demo the two. any other suggestions for +/- 5k?

mrkoven

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Mrkoven ,  I owed Rockna’s WaveDream dac which replaced a Denafrips Terminator I owed just prior to the spike of online popularity .
I vaguely remember Terminator’s performance however with direct comparisons in two different systems the Rockna dac seemed to be quieter ,clearly it was more musical and more resolving plus a big deal to me Rockna had it over the Denafrips with well recorded vocal's.

I would think the new Rockna Wavelight would certainly be great performing considering the designers back ground history .

However later on I got interested in Rockna’s sister companies AudioByte converter and power supplies and noticed the Hydra Vox dac digital stack with a purpose built headphone section.
I saw that AudioMirror is a AudioByte dealer and made an impulse purchase of the Hydra Vox dac after a short exchange of emails with Vlad . I passed on the AudioByte converter and power supples realizing there would be more boxes and connecting cables to deal with and look at . I liked the neat and tidy look of the Vox stack and of course it’s performance over the WaveDream .

Jriggy I find the Hydra Vox a little more exciting sounding over the WaveDream and possibly even quieter then the entry level Rockna dac .
The Vox I have is a two piece identical chassis’s  , a dac and dual power supplies in the other .
Sonictekton thanks for the video , I usually listen to vintage footage of the Jazz greats ect on YouTube and I listen with headphones and I could clearly hear a difference between the two dacs , jeesh 
Skanda I know what what your saying about the Rockna WaveDream net I listened to a demonstration switching out other severs the Dream net clearly made a fairly noticeable difference, just beautiful however out of my budget. Having tried other servers I got a big jump in performance enjoyment trying a Innuos Zenith 3 just recently.
Now I’m content with Hydra Vox dac and Innuos server though I will keep an eye out for that 2nd hand Rockna net if you purchase the Taiko Extreme.