Rod Rain: Chifi lives on!

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This post is all about the Rod Rain, which is a clone of the Rupert Neve headphone amplifier.

I bought mine for about $120 from AliExpress, if I'm not mistaken. Supposedly. the Rod Rain is 98% equivalent to the Neve, which itself sounds comparable to models in the $1000 range.

I'm monitoring the sound as it breaks in. At 13 hours in it was intolerable, boom and sizzle and veiled. Now nearly 30 hours in. it's coming in to its own. I expect at 200 hours it should be sublime.

Pictured is the Musetec 005 DAC in silver on the bottom. The blue lit box is the Rod Rain. The red light is on the Raspberry Pi 4. And to the right is the Sennheiser 800 headphones.

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Topic - Rod Rain: Chifi lives on! - raingerz 16:39:00 04/25/24 (3)

Not Really - Triode_Kingdom 16:40:17 04/26/24 (2)

Because it is a true clone - raingerz 17:51:49 04/26/24 (1)

It seems to make you happy - Chip647 08:14:07 06/22/24 (0)

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