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Review on the Rockna Audio Wavelight Pre/DAC just went up on Stereo Times

My review on the Rockna Audio Wavelight Pre/DAC has just been posted on the Stereo Times website. I have received many Emails from Gon members asking questions about it's performance in the last couple of months. There is an on-going thread about Rockna Audio DACs and I shared on that thread that I had the Wavelight in for review. This Pre/DAC has much to offer across the board and is highly competitive at it's price point of $5000. For all the details take a look at the review. Enjoy today's holiday!
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Nice new review
https://headmania.org/2021/03/22/rockna-wavelight-dac-review/
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Please remember with latest firmware upgrade on another still just out In June -21
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Another update: Swapped some capacitors in my modified monoblock amplifiers, changed out some Duelund JDM Copper foils for some Duelund Cast Tin Plated foils, the upgrade was very substantial. Timbre of instruments is breathtaking, and the stage opened up front to back quite a bit. If you know how to modify your equipment, use these capacitors every where along your audio path, and then thank me later. 

And then Firmware 1.23 came out for the wavelight: The biggest improvement here is the Hybrid Volume. THD is audibly lower, analogue volume has in comparison a certain grittiness, noise that is especially present in the vocals. with Hybrid volume enabled, the Rockna can compete with any chip based DAC on the market in terms of clarity, it still holds on to all it’s R2R characteristics. So it is now the best of both worlds to put it mildly. Listening to music  with this thing is just an absolute delight. 
Rockna has a Hybrid Ladder mode in development, and if it’s anything like the Hybrid Volume mode, I just cannot wait :)
Almost a year in, and still immensely satisfied with my purchase

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