Which DAC? PS Audio Stellar or Denifrips Pontus ver.15


In the under $3k category how do these two compare with each other? Delta sigma vs  Ladder. Has anyone heard these models? Thoughts?

rjrustigian

Great timing, I too am considering these two DACs.  Would love to hear from folks who have experience with both.  

Read reviews and choose the one that most closely delivers the sonic characteristics you’re looking for.  Either way, they both offer i2S inputs, so down the road I’d highly recommend adding a DDC to take advantage of better clocking, galvanic isolation, and the i2S input — it offers a very significant performance boost on the order of a complete DAC upgrade on the relative cheap IME.  I bought a used Iris for my R2R DAC and the improvement was remarkable.  Just something to consider and look forward to for the future, and best of luck.