INNOVATION, AND COMMON SENSE APPLIED TO DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY
ROCKNA AUDIO was founded in 1999 as a quest for insightful, enjoyable, inspiring music reproduction. Since then, a remarkable evolution happened within the company which is not going to stop.
Their whole team is driven by the common passion for technology. A passion that will never allow them to make any “me-too” products. They want to offer an option – a different one – to show that things can be done differently.
WHAT CAN YOU GET FROM ROCKNA? You get an original product, entirely made in our labs (no overseas assembly) with internal structures built literally from the scratch, avoiding as much as possible off-the-shelf solutions. Because we can’t follow the limits imposed by them. We like to think free. We always thought that high-end audio should be everything about innovation.
Playing around with off-the-shelf available chips is fun and certainly a good and economic way to produce good sound. But once you want to design a cutting-edge product, the off-the-shelf approach doesn’t apply. Naturally, a custom solution, freed from the limitation of the available chipsets, come into place, allowing us to design and build from the scratch an entire digital audio system.
We are honoured by your presence here and we invite you to enjoy the music through our devices.
“If you are looking for high-end audio as it should be, you may be in the right place. Let’s bring back innovation, consistency, and common sense applied to design and technology.”
Nicolae Jitariu
Founder Rockna Audio
MORE INFORMATION?
For technical specifications, visit ROCKNA WEBSITE.
For orders and other inquiries, give us a call or email/send us a message using the contact form at the bottom of this page.
WAVEDREAM
D/A Converter
DESCRIPTION
THE SOUND YOU 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 will honour it’s name. In the good tradition established by its predecessor, the Wavedream continues to push the limits of performance, design, and sound quality. The ingredients, innovations, technology, and features of the product are presented below.
SOFTWARE DEFINED ARCHITECTURE
All building blocks of the Wavedream DAC concerning digital processing are built entirely on a single piece of programmable silicon – a FPGA. With an FPGA, it’s internal hardware architecture could be described by a piece of software (actually, a very complex one). When upgrading the Wavedream with new firmware, you actually change its hardware. This system allows great flexibility, obsolescence protection and let us improve the sound of your DAC by changing its internal architecture, or add new cool features, or improve the existing ones.
WAVEDREAM NET
Network Enhanced Transport
DESCRIPTION
FPGA-BASED HIGH-PERFORMANCE AUDIO
The NET is built around a powerful digital audio core, which streams all audio data into a large RAM buffer. The audio data is clocked out after an ultra-low phase noise master clock, making the machine close to an ideal source. The powerful FPGA engine takes care of the exclusive mode of the disc playback, which is totally separated by the server-side.
Also, the FPGA contains a large number of DSP units which can be very effective in real-time processing of audio streams, saving lots of processing power from the server’s side CPU.
LOCAL, LAN AND DISC MEMORY TRANSPORT
The Wavedream NET is a unique product that adds together a high-performance audio server and the latest generation, memory-based cd transport. You can enjoy your cd collection, internal storage playback or latest streaming experience from only one machine. The NET is naturally the best complementary source for the Wavedream DAC over the HDlink(I2S) connection.
WAVELIGHT
D/A Converter Preamplifier
DESCRIPTION
SMOOTH AS SILK
In our quest for developing a package for the audiophile seeking more than just high-quality audio reproduction, we realized several things. Firstly, we need digital precision but with ‘analog’ charm, free of any ‘digital glare’ yet with rich detail. Secondly, this package needs to provide outstanding value, future-proofing, new features, and stunning, timeless design. This is how the ‘Wavelight DAC’ was created, more than just a little brother for the accomplished ‘Wavedream’.
SOFTWARE DEFINED ARCHITECTURE & FPGA TECHNOLOGY
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.
When upgrading the Wavelight with new firmware, you actually change its hardware. This system allows great flexibility, obsolescence protection, and lets us improve the sound of your DAC by changing its internal architecture, add new, cool features, or improve the existing ones. Each digital block is custom built under the Rockna Audio high-performance standard.
WAVELIGHT SERVER
Streamer / Server – Coming Soon!
DESCRIPTION
Send us a message or call us for any orders, enquires or any other technical information regarding any of our brands and products.
Auditions by appointment, any time:
Phone or email first to confirm date and time.