Rockna WAVEDREAM DAC

THE BEST SOUND YOU HAVE EVER EXPECTED,
AND BEYOND.

We are proud to present our current flagship in digital audio reproduction. We believe it has the right ingredients to produce a sound that lives up to its name.

In the good tradition of its predecessor, the Wavedream continually pushes the limits of performance, design and sound quality. The components, innovations, technologies and features of the product are presented below.

Reviews

"The sound produced by this pairing was among the most transparent I have ever heard in digital audio, the immediacy in particular was stunning, it made pretty well everything I played sound alive in a way that some very well regarded digital systems have not matched. It delivers oodles of detail and reveals aspects of recordings that I was surprised to hear, both good and band..

If you are looking for a complete digital front end that will hold its own against the best in class you could do a lot worse than the Wavedream team."

Rockna Wavedream Net & Wavedream DAC | The Ear (the-ear.net)

Headmania.org

"Everything about wavedream is superlative. The emotions I have felt on the journey It took me, reminds me of MSB Analog Dac. Yes, it is that good. I didn 't have it here to do a direct comparison, but I must say that the experience and astonishment were quite similar. If I remember correctly, WaveDream could even surpass Analog Dac resolution wise while still keeping a musical and analog sound signature Overall think they are on the same level of performance.

Considering the performance and the fact that it comes with all the inputs, features and pre-amplifier mentioned in the first part, WaveDream is a first class DAC and will be serious competition to the really big players on the market.

Rockna unleashed a real beast in the world, a truly high end dac that goes in the top of my recommendation list. My excitement and expectations for this DAC were exceeded by the results."

Rockna Wavedream DAC - Review - HeadMania

Rockna Wavedream Signature - Review - HeadMania

headphonesnstuff.blog

" If you want something that is forward, and really commands your attention, the Wavedream is an excellent choice. Its technical performance is up there with the best I have personally heard and backs its sound signature up with a truly excellent level of build quality and attention to detail.

If you are in the market for a new DAC and the Wavedream is in the price range you are looking at, I can highly recommend it gear from Rockna Audio!"

Rockna Audio Wavedream Edition XLR – Full Review – Headphones n' Stuff (headphonesnstuff.blog)

SOFTWARE DEFINED ARCHITECTURE

We've always believed that high-end audio should be all about innovation. Playing around with commercially available chips is fun and is certainly a good and economical way to produce good sound. But as soon as you want to develop a top-of-the-line product, the off-the-shelf approach is no longer applicable.

Then, of course, a customized solution comes into play, freed from the limitations of available chipsets and allowing us to design and build a complete digital audio system from scratch.
All the building blocks of digital processing of the Wavedream DAC concernig are built entirely on a single piece of programmable silicon - an FPGA.

With an FPGA, the internal hardware architecture can be described by a piece of software (actually a very complex piece). When you upgrade the Wavedream with new firmware, you are actually changing the hardware.

This system allows great flexibility, protection against obsolescence and allows us to improve the sound of your Dac by changing its internal architecture, adding new cool features or improving the existing ones.

FEMTOVOX CLOCK SYSTEM

The clock is the heart of a digital playback system. Their accuracy and jitter level are crucial to sound quality. Only a very good clock system can find the way to analog sound at the output of your DAC. If the timing system is faulty, digital roughness occurs and the analogue impression of the music is severely affected. Aside from the performance of the clock itself, the construction of the clock tree (the clock distribution architecture) in the DAC is equally crucial.

The jitter value that really matters is not just the power of the clock itself - but the clock that actually enters the DAC and is used for conversion - let's call it the conversion clock. The conversion clock that goes into the DAC area depends on the clock tree, which is usually not only routed, but in most cases also conditioned, which changes its quality. A poorly designed clock tree can significantly degrade the quality of the clock entering the D/A section, even if the source clock is of high performance.

With this in mind, we have developed an advanced clock system for the Wavedream called femtovox. Using femtovox ensures that only extremely small amounts of jitter are present at the clock input of the DAC conversion. The unique architecture sees the conversion clock synthesized directly at the DAC input, without any conditioning, ensuring consistent jitter performance at any sample rate.

The conversion clock is controlled with an accuracy of 1 ppb and has a jitter of approximately 300 fS. The smallest jitter value in the world? No. The smallest jitter value that actually matters? Probably.