REVIEW - AUNE AUDIO S16 - Single box DAC and Headphone Amplifier.
Dec 6, 2017 at 1:39 PM Post #92 of 95
May 13, 2019 at 6:03 PM Post #94 of 95
Tested Aune S16. Using it with AES input from singxer SU-1.

Man, this is one of the better AKM chip implementation I've heard :) :)


I've owned the Aune S16 for several years now. Until I purchased the RME ADI-2 DAC last year it was my primary DAC. It is quite nice and subjectively it is 99.5% as good a DAC as the RME. The RME has a far superior headphone amp and tons of DSP features the S16 obviously lacks. I had fully planned to sell the Aune but could not part with it. I consider it my backup should something happen to the RME. The sad part is that the S16 was discontinued and replaced by the S6 which from my understanding is a decent performer but suffers from cost cutting measures. No Crystek clock chips or FPGA.
 
May 13, 2019 at 9:19 PM Post #95 of 95
Similar to ^^

Have got the S16 (great dac) feeding the HDVD800 (great amp) for a lot of my listening.
 

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