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

Thread for OWNER IMPRESSIONS, FEEDBACK, QUESTIONS, ETC. regarding DENAFRIPS DACs.

DENAFRIPS lists the following R2R DACs:

Ares, Pontus, Venus, and Terminator (in increasing price order).

"DENAFRIPS incorporated in year 2012, focus in developing high end audio equipment at a very affordable price. Throughout the years of intense Research & Development, and continuous improvement of the product lines, DENAFRIPS had finally settled with the current product range equipped with R-2R ladder DAC technology. The reason behind this is the designer strongly believe that R-2R DAC is the best way to reproduce music.

The name, DENAFRIPS, stand for:

D-ynamic
E-xquisite
N-atural
A-ttractive
F-idelity
R-efined
I-ntoxicating
P-ure
S-ophisticated

This mean a lot and it is the house-sound of all DENAFRIPS products." [Copied From Denafrips About Us section]
david_ten
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jriggy
565 posts
 
Has anyone heard the Terminator sound better after being on for more than a couple days? 
I recently heard it for a number of days and thought I noticed better sound by a tangible margin after a few days from it’s last turn on. 
anwar
119 posts
 
A couple of days is not enough.  After about 2 months, I heard no more improvement.  Please don't remove the AC power but you can put the Terminator on standby.  
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jriggy
565 posts
 
@anwar
So the front power button is just ‘standby’? I wasn’t talking about unplugging the unit.
thanks
david_ten OP
5,480 posts
 
Yes. One can only (fully) power down by removing the power cord.

I put it in 'Standby' every night and it remains so for about 8 hours. It comes back to 'performance' fairly quickly. I usually start listening about a half hour after the Terminator and my T+A amp are back on.
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