You may know that Rockna not just manufactures technology for their own products, but do a lot of work for many great Hi-Fi companies in the world. Rockna Wavelight is one of the components that holds much proprietary technology from this Romanian company. Not just a D/A converter, but also a pre-amp, as the Wavelight has a fully analog, not digital volume control on board. Wavelight DAC employs the latest Xilinx 7-series FPGA which allows us to assemble the functions of a custom high performance R2R processor. The Wavelight’s digital processing capabilities are built with complex VHDL coding and state of the art FPGA hardware. The architecture is described, in fact, by a piece of software and future-proof as it is software upgradable.
“With the information that I shared in the review regarding the performance of the Rockna Wavelight Pre/DAC: its reference level spatial qualities, a full, rich tonality with a hint of tube warmth, and excellent transient speed and macro-dynamics. The conclusion is that it is one of the best DACs at its price point compared to other top-notch DACs on the market”
Rockna Wavelight DAC/PRE MSRP €4899 incl VAT