DENAFRIPS DAC ---- Owner Impressions, Feedback, General Discussion, Questions and more....

More coverage from Stereophile:
From "Jason Time-Travels to Day Three" by Jason Victor Serinus / Stereophile

"In case you haven't guessed what I'm going to say, the 15th floor's Gingko Audio system continued the trend of fine albeit warm sound. Whether on a Bach Three-Part Invention by Bela Fleck, Joshua Bell, and Edgar Meyer or the "Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers" from Brian Bromberg, I heard a lively top and all-pervasive warmth. Ditto for a 2L hi-rez track from Britten's Simple Symphony, where admirable liquidity was tempered by sweetness and warmth.

Heard: Gingko Audio ClaraVU 7 Mk. 3 system speakers ($9000/pair), Triode Corp of Japan TRX-P3M monoblocks ($6500/pair), Wells Audio Commander preamp ($4000), Denafrips Terminator DAC ($4500), Salk Stream Player Gen 3 server ($1700), Danacable and TruStream cabling, and Gingko Audio ARCH vibration-control devices ($200-$400)."

There is also coverage from the Audio Bacon site
Vinh Vu

Glad to see this level of enthusiasm for Vinh's room, including the DENAFRIPS.

Now that there's some distance between the show, I'd like to hear more perspectives.

As for me, my opinion remains the four products slot far closer than one would expect or believe.  As stated previously, I needed to work at distinguishing them, including the entry level Ares from the statement Terminator.  You do get more from moving up the ladder: more solidity, more heft, more extension, more liquidity, more clarity.  But the improvements were, for me, subtle, only identifiable in direct comparison, and even at that, requiring my full attention.  It seemed to reflect what spending more time, effort, and funds on a power supply typically yields.  And after thinking on this, I don't see the value of the four products, and wonder if there's any sense in combining the middle products into a single offering.

Finally, I'm not currently up on the SOTA digital, but the DENAFRIPS products certainly show me how much things have improved over the years.  Still, to my ears, the sad conclusion is we're still not knocking on the door of what analog provides 

Interesting DAC. I have followed this thread for a few days now. So was wondering what's up with the guys at Audiostream. They compared 4 DACs and found the Terminator to be "confusing". Because Denafrips don't advertise in their rag?