Today, I received an Accurate Audio Studio D1000 R2R DAC from a friend.
This is a huge and heavy unit (heavier than 555B!)In fact, the manufacturer claims it is an exact replica of the Rockna WAVEDREAM DAC.
This is actually a bit confusing what to say. Because Made in China's reputation for intellectual property protection is really not good enough. Although China's reputation in intellectual property has improved in recent years, but this product ...
Regardless, I remember the price of WAVEDREAM DAC is as high as $ 5,300, and my friend bought this unit for almost $ 1,000.
20% price What about quality?
Let's look at things first.
You can see that the quality of the shell is OK, not as good as the original, but it is good enough.
As for performance?
We know the original claim:
OUTPUTS (Wavedream Edition)
THD + N (at-6dB): 0.003% or -90 dB
As usual, the stage was handed over to APx555B
Dashboard:
Anyway, at least it achieves "similar performance"
So ... 20% of the price, 80% of the quality. I do n’t think I agree with the values. But they did.
This is a huge and heavy unit (heavier than 555B!)In fact, the manufacturer claims it is an exact replica of the Rockna WAVEDREAM DAC.
This is actually a bit confusing what to say. Because Made in China's reputation for intellectual property protection is really not good enough. Although China's reputation in intellectual property has improved in recent years, but this product ...
Regardless, I remember the price of WAVEDREAM DAC is as high as $ 5,300, and my friend bought this unit for almost $ 1,000.
20% price What about quality?
Let's look at things first.
You can see that the quality of the shell is OK, not as good as the original, but it is good enough.
As for performance?
We know the original claim:
OUTPUTS (Wavedream Edition)
THD + N (at-6dB): 0.003% or -90 dB
As usual, the stage was handed over to APx555B
Dashboard:
Anyway, at least it achieves "similar performance"
So ... 20% of the price, 80% of the quality. I do n’t think I agree with the values. But they did.