Ciunas DAC - anyone heard it ?

[lucksin]

while looking for DAC, i came across this Ciunas DAC which has been designed by highly acclaimed John Kenny.

It uses a battery to power hence taking care of background noise as per the site.

anyone heard about it ?

 

[prasen_b]

while looking for DAC, i came across this Ciunas DAC which has been designed by highly acclaimed John Kenny.

It uses a battery to power hence taking care of background noise as per the site.

anyone heard about it ?

This is a very good DAC if you have USB only requirement. However the PCM5102 DAC it uses doesn't have very good specs but his implementation is supposed to be excellent

 

[hifiramr]

Very expensive when we convert the rate to Indian.Better you check audio gd full balanced dac with asynchronous USB.You will get lot features in audio gd

 

[gobble]

I am using the Ciunas usb/spdif convertor since many months now and I am very happy with it. The dac I presume should be equally well engineered.

When I decide to upgrade my DAC after 3 or 4 years, I will certainly consider a product by JK over other well know and reputed big brands.

--G0bble

 

[reignofchaos]

Wow! How is this converter? Seems pretty well designed from specs

 

[gobble]

Wow! How is this converter? Seems pretty well designed from specs

I like it. It has saved me from spending more money on a high-end CDP with mumbo-jumbo specs and weighing 3 times more (The $100 one can save on shipping a big CDP I spent on the device instead). I use a linux based audio pc running mpd and jackd in a headless configuration with android based player as the remote.


Computer audio IS the future, and this device certainly proves it.


--G0bble

 

[captrajesh]

Hey Gobble I thought your Shigaraki DAC was superb. Are you planning to change it!

 

[gobble]

Hey Gobble I thought your Shigaraki DAC was superb. Are you planning to change it!

No the usb-spdif convertor sits in between the PC and DAC. I will change it once 24/96 becomes the industry standard (and all old music reissues only come in this format - which is pretty useless up-converting really, but you get the idea) which may be a few years from now.

The DAC needed a classy high status companion to match its own high status and do any justice so I went for a source upgrade as a Diwali gift to myself. I didn't really advertise on dacmatrimony.com hyeah:

--G0bble