If you are looking for a great R2R DAC take a look at my review on the Audio Mirror Tubadour III SE DAC on the website Stereo Times. It retails for $2,500, is beautifully built and is exceptional music maker. By the way I know three listeners who owned Denafrips Terminators who replaced them with the Tubadour III SE and loved the change to this DAC.
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?
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Check out Audiobyte's (Rockna sister company) new Hydra/Vox for the same price. I've had mine for a month now and blown away by it. Mike Powell ("OCD hifi guy" on youtube) has several video's on it and in this video he puts it up against a 20K DAC with interesting results;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_5XSFTbOdY I would be very interested to know how it compares to the new wavelight. |
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 . |
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