aune Yuki Portable DAC with Headphone Amp,Completely Separate DAC and AMP Ceramic Substrate Structure,32bit/768k DSD256 USB C Dongle with 3.5mm 4.4mm Output High-Res Lossless for Smartphone PC Laptops
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- Innovative Dual-Layer Structure DAC and Amp Completely Separated. One layer for the digital DAC circuit, one for the analog headphone amp circuit. The Yuki is designed with True High Fidelity reproduction in mind. The ultimate sound quality is our goal. *[Discrete Headphone Amp with Transistors] The discrete headphone amp board with 5 V power supply has 16 transistors to form the 4-way headphone amp. Compact yet powerful
- Dual DAC, 32 bit/768 k DSD256, 5 V Boost Converter, 4.4mm+3.5mm YUKI Portable DAC with Headphone Amp equipped with dual CS43198 DAC chip. Two channels completely independent. Better dynamics and separation. Up to 32 bit/768 k DSD256 when pairing with a computer. The 4 independent headphone amps with the 5 V supply and the outputs of balanced 4.4 mm and single-ended 3.5 mm, can drive your IEMs and earphones with ease. The outstanding sound performance makes Yuki a great partner for all kinds of earphones
- Ceramic SubstrateThe circuit board of aune's YUKI utilizes a ceramic substrate. In addition, the 4-way balanced headphone amplifier circuit is discrete, with 44 transistors driving the outputs, and the ceramic substrate's excellent thermal conductivity, high electrical insulation, and resistance to high temperatures provide the basis for pure and stable sound quality
- High-Spec Aesthetic Tuning Headphone amplifier output noise: 2.9 V, THD+N: 0.00033% @1 kHz.T he excellent hardware performance has laid a solid foundation for excellent sound. The tuning is based on real instrument sounds and music pieces referencing, leading to the signature that is natural and full of musicality
- Aesthetic Design: Snow White & Crystal Clear All-aluminum alloy structure, fine baked painting finish, glass window. The whole aesthetic design intends to make you feel the beautiful combination between art and technology
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Yuki, aune's new portable DAC with headphone amp, is equipped with dual CS43198 DAC chip. aune innovatively designed the dual-layer structure, separating the digital circuit and the analog headphone amp circuit. Moreover, the 4-way balanced headphone amp circuit has 4×4 transistors to drive the output. It is a unique “dongle” that purely focuses on sound. Dual CS43198 DAC chip. Two channels completely independent. Better dynamics and separation. The 4 independent headphone amps with the ±5V supply and the outputs of balanced 4.4mm and single-ended 3.5mm, can drive your IEMs and earphones with ease. The outstanding sound performance makes Yuki a great partner for all kinds of earphones. The headphone amp part uses multiple dedicated chips with 土5V supply to drive the 4 independent headphone amps. This little thing has got big energy inside. Ceramic PCB has the quality of excellent thermal conductivity and insulativity and low dielectric loss. The Yuki uses hybrid ceramic PCB, which, while having the advantages of ceramic PCB, has also high strength, leading to greater high frequencies performance. Aesthetic Design: Snow White & Crystal Clear All-aluminum alloy structure, fine baked painting finish, glass window. The whole aesthetic design intends to make you feel the beautiful combination between art and technology. Aesthetic Tuning The tuning is based on real instrument sounds and music pieces referencing, leading to the signature that is natural and full of musicality. High-Spec: The Basis of Excellent Sound Headphone amplifier output noise: 2.9uV, THD+N:0.00033%@1kHz. The excellent hardware performance has laid a solid foundation for excellent sound.
Item dimensions L x W x H: 4.02 x 3.98 x 0.1 inches
Manufacturer: aune
Maximum Supply Voltage: 5 volts
Minimum Supply Voltage: 5 volts_of_direct_current
Mounting Type: Cable Mount
Maximum Supply Voltage: 5 volts
Minimum Supply Voltage: 5 volts_of_direct_current
Mounting Type: Cable Mount
Number of Channels: 2
Item Dimensions: 4.02 x 3.98 x 0.1 inches
Material Type: Aluminum, Glass
Manufacturer: aune
Model: YUKI
Brand Name: Aune
Warranty Description: 2 years
Included Components: Cable
Part Number: Yuki
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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.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2026 by Eric S
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!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2024 by Nic
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!
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Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2025 by LoveMoveLearn
As stated plus everything I can't say that much better. She really is worth more than her dollar value. And is of the highest quality. It gets slightly warm and that is it. I bought the orange leather case obviously and it does not get any warmer inside of that. I bought the case even though at first I really liked the style, it did get a little boring for me after a while. It did have a really warm to dark sound at first but still high on details and extension somehow. And as it burned in or broke-in, got more hours of use, it became very clear and really only sounds its best with warmer earphones. The detail is still phenomenal! I love this DAC/amp so much, I still buy DAC/amp dongles expecting to at least find an equal, but back they go. Lol Very strangely it took over 2 weeks of 3+ hours daily of boring warm and dry boring hours, I might add, of listening before I started to notice some changes sound quality. But now it is so crystal clear with just enough of the slightest warmth. Everything else just sounds so natural(sorry I'm very good at describing imaging and separation and some other things, and other things I forget). But sound is very balanced, no frequencies stand out, unless you use the 4.4mm. Then things sounds just thicker and nicer yet. My personal choice for doing upgrades. It is so easy to use, you can just turn the volume to 100 and use your phone for volume. It is so portable due it's size of course, but it is no light weight it has more to it than you'd it looks like it should have. Very good build quality it appears. Connectivity seems to the only slight issue, as this morning I started having some static or some noise like shorting, so I started moving my earphone cable around and checking things and it came to be that the beautiful and so nice short jumper wire( usb c to usb c cable) that is included was the fault. I switched it with one of mine and no more noise. Back to dead silent background. Thank you, I hope you buy and enjoy as I have. :)
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Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2024 by Erin V
Purchased this, Aune Yuki DAC, after reading some favorable reviews online. This is my first dongle dac that I have purchased. The Yuki replaces a previous "stack" DAC + Amp from a well known American company, and sounds as good, or better, than that previous stack, while taking up no space (okay, an itsy-bitsy tiny small space) on my desktop, or arm chair. I mainly drive a pair of Sennheiser HD6XX's and a pair of Fiio iem's (FD5's) from my laptop with the Yuki. I find the sound to be really good, meaning, perfect! All listening is done via the 4.4mm balanced jack. I keep the volume of the Yuki somewhere in its middle setting, and use the laptop's volume to adjust for listening volume. Pressing the two volume buttons on the Yuki for 2 seconds alternates between low gain for iem's, or high gain for the HD6XX's. All of my music streaming from my laptop sound pristine and uncolored. I couldn't be more pleased with the abilities of the Aune Yuki. The Yuki's build is a solid chunk of aluminum and feels quite substantial for such a tiny dac. The window side of the Yuki is pure eye candy, and the paint and graphics are top notch. Just an elegant little dac!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2024 by T. Robison
This is a great little DAC with a headphone amp. It's perfect for TIDAL, and works with Spotify too. I'm using it with a pair of Meze 99 Classics, via 4.4mm balanced cables, and I'm really happy with the audio. It's very clear, and definitely feels "warm" but not overcrowded or distorted. I'm using it via the Android app "USB Audio Player PRO" and once the DSD option was enabled, sound quality is excellent. I'm very happy with this DAC/amp!
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Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2024 by Anthony
i really like this dongle. it is very good looking with premium build quality. it is on the warmer side of neutral but not overly warm. it is way nicer build and sound than price would suggest. i own many many dongles and i consider this an excellent addition to my collection. when i open my case with more dongles in it that i am willing to admit to i find myself pulling this one out quite often....and there are some very, very, nice dongles in that case.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2026 by sabin
I felt that the aune worked well and did a great job sending power to my Timeless II Planars when I used them. Clarity was great, lad slight warmth, and was quite easy to use as a plug n' play. Such a nice form factor and super portable as well. Unfortunately they stopped working suddenly once day -- tried them with multiple different Macbooks, and it just didnt send any sound. Don't know what went wrong but you don't expect this level of quality for the price point. Unfortunate.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2025 by Siddhant Pratap