Yuki Portable DAC with Headphone Amp

I have been listening very critically for years and have been consistently underwhelmed by many of the most highly praised DACs and headphone amps (dongle and desktop, both). This one is significantly different: listening through the Yuki, I never find myself looking for a way to improve the sound, noticing imperfections, or wondering about an upgrade of any sort. This product completely satisfies. Every instrument is completely engaging and beautiful. The timber is consistently correct to my ears, throughout the spectrum. The sound stage is incredibly spacious, every instrument comes through with strength, clarity, and gobs of detail. Not a single complaint. If you want near perfect reproduction that is exquisitely beautiful, this is your tool. If you want exageraration in the bass or other frequencies, look elsewhere. I listen through Etymotic ER4SRs and Phillips Fidelio X3s (both with balanced cables) and find the presentation from the Yuki to be essentially perfect with both, streaming from Qobuz through UAPP from my Galaxy S25. The USB cable that you use with the Yuki will make a big difference. I spent about two months comparing a variety of generic and premium cables. Though the stock cable is very good, upgrading to a (generic) USB-C 4 cable is significantly better, though not the best. To bring out the Yuki's fullest potential, I opted for the Ibasso CB19-C in combination with this power bank: INIU for MagSafe Slimmest Portable Charger. The Aune Yuki is a supremely good DAC.

今までにもドングルDACはいくつか購入、売却をくりかえしてきましたが、自分が聴くジャンルと複数ある イヤホンとの相性みたいなものがあって、どれもそれなりの音の良さはあるのですがイマイチだったりと 迷走を繰り返しています。 よく海外サイトのレビューを参考にしながらイヤホンやドングルDACなどは購入してみるのですが 使用のイヤホンが違うので海外レビューと違うところも感じますが概ね評判通りの音と思います。 （音場が広いと書いている人がいたが聴いた限りは普通） andoroidとiPhoneの両方のスマホに繋いで聴いています。 個人的には音場が狭い、音が近すぎる、エッジが立ちすぎる音は嫌いなのでまあどれも このDACアンプには当てはまらないと思います。最近のデジタルっぽい刺激のある音や 一聴して野太い音を出すDACアンプとも違う気がしますが、ややアナログっぽい長時間 聴いていても疲れない音を出すと思います。 聴くジャンルが主に小編成クラシックのホール演奏みたいなものなのでどちらかというと あまり合うとは感じませんが長時間のリスニングでも聴き疲れはありません。 PCに繋いだとき、スマホヘッドホンのときにインピーダンスにより音量を上げても出力に 不足感を感じるときがあります。 本体にボリュームはついてますがゲイン調整はないみたいのでそこでやや不満を感じる ときがあります。 概ねデザインもネーミング（ここは疑問ｗ）含めよい製品と思うので星は5個つけておきます。

数十年前にアナログ盤や真空管アンプで聴いたような音。 最初の印象はこんな感じでした。 イヤホンは水月雨KATOを使用。 組み合わせるとKATO Yukiになりました。 見た目にも女性らしさがあります。 それはさておき…。 解像感と広めの音場はそのままに温かみのある音質になります。 特に中低域のふっくらした感じは、先に例えた『アナログ盤・真空管アンプ』のそれに近しいものとも言えます。 昭和にタイムスリップとまでは行きませんが、ノルタルジックを少しだけ感じられる、そんなDACに思うところです。

I've been a self proclaimed audiophile my entire life and recently got into dongle DACs to drive my IEMs and hifiman sundaras across different devices (laptop, phones, etc) as the 3.5 mm jacks weren't always sufficient. Comparing the Yuki to my previous daily driver, the moondrop dawn pro, I noticed an immediate difference in the sound. The Yuki seemed to offer a lusher soundstage compared to the dawn, with slightly deeper bass and more natural sounding vocals. It helped round out some of the more muffled mids I was hearing from the dawn pro through my over ears in a few Stevie Nicks recordings. The sound is a lot less clinical than the dawn pro, and more warm/natural sounding. Listening to the Eagles live feels just a little more like you're there in the crowd through the yuki. The sound is excellent without feeling like it colors the sound negatively for any genre unlike other DACs I've used. It worked with no issues with all of my devices and looks really cool. Gets slightly warm, especially in the leather case but never hot. The balanced output also sounds really great, I never needed to come close to maxing out the power or anything to get really great output and great sound out of this DAC. No funny settings or filters to play with. Just straight up awesome sound. My critique of this DAC is that it's missing a few quality of life features present on the moondrop for much less. First, it's hard to tell if things are properly connected or not as there is no LED or anything indicating things are on. Furthermore, the moondrop pro will tell me what quality my music is being streamed in via the LED color being shown, a nice feature missing here. Lastly it's not really needed because the stock sound is so awesome, but an app with multiple filters/LED control/etc. like offered on the dawn pro would be a cool add here. Keeping in mind though that we buy these things mainly for one reason - SOUND- this thing absolutely delivers in that department for every genre I've tried so far since I've owned it in the last few weeks. My new favorite DAC for sure!

If all you listen to is folk music, chamber music, bluegrass, hymns, and maybe polka, you cannot find a better DAC for the money! (For the money, you'll be hard pressed to find a better DAC, anyway.) The sound is warm and intimate. Bluegrass vocals really connect and touch the soul. Like Jennifer Nettles? You'll love this DAC! It makes the beautiful raspiness in her vocals downright soul-gripping! Listening to classical guitar, it sounds and feels like the guitarist is in the room with you! El McMeen fans, eat your heart out! That said, listening to conference calls through this is barely tolerable, and audiobooks narrated by women somehow sound more nasal. The same warmth that shines in chamber music, folk, and bluegrass makes speakers sound *really* close. Orchestral music also sounds smaller, with less separation between the instruments. Like Enya or Clannad? You'll be disappointed; the soundstage sounds… shrunk. Rock music sounds passably nice, but there's more of a "wall of sound"—a fullness of stage presence, with (again) less separation between instruments and vocals. So… know what you're getting: Beauty and warmth. Good separation of notes, but not great separation of instruments or vocals in complex orchestral music. And true intimacy in vocals—for better and for worse. If that's what you want, this is a definite buy!