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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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celander
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Seems like the Venus product is a combination of a Terminator DAC front end with a rewired Terminator face plate put into a Pontus chassis case with a Pontus power supply. The Terminator has 2 more I2S inputs than the Pontus/Venus. The Pontus/Venus share a common weight of 8.5kG and common S/N ratio and dynamic range, whereas the Terminator has a weight of 19kG and better S/N ratio and dynamic range specs. Terminator seems to have a better chassis and far beefier P/S.

And why the company opted to use the word “Reserval” instead of “Phase” for the Pontus/Venus face plates is a mystery. 
david_ten OP
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Holiday News:

"The HESTIA and HYPERION are DENAFRIPS advanced Pre & Power amplifier. The perfect companion of the well-regarded DENAFRIPS DAC family.

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The HESTIA and HYPERION are fully developed in-house, the entire R&D process took a good 1 year duration to complete.

It has been long awaited. How does it sound? You asked?

It shares the same DENAFRIPS house-sound: Musical, Emotional, Dynamic, and High Resolution."

- via Vinshine Audio

https://www.denafrips.com/hestia-hyperion

david_ten OP
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6Moons DENAFRIPS Hestia preamp and Hyperion power amp... Blue Moon Award Winner for: "High-value true-balanced pre /power combo"

Review (Srajan Ebaen): 

https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/denafrips2/

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georgehifi
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Winner for: "High-value true-balanced pre /power combo"
Very weak on giving any specs for the amp, even on the Denafrips website. Doesn’t instill much confidence .

No input impedance
No output impedance or damping factor
No 4ohm wattage ability or 2ohm, ect ect ect.

Can’t tell from this if it’s a pussy that can only drive easy load speaker or a lion that could drive say Wilson’s.

Cheers George
david_ten OP
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Denafrips Terminator Review by Jay Luong // Audio Bacon

https://audiobacon.net/2019/02/28/denafrips-terminator-review/
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