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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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jaytor
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I have noticed more dropouts with tidal in the past few weeks. I suspect, with so many people sheltering at home, that their servers are much more heavily loaded than normal. Have you noticed dropouts from local content instead of streaming?
david_ten OP
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@snafujg  In my experience dropouts for Tidal are almost always upstream of the DAC. 

However, just in case, make sure your Terminator is up to date with it's firmware.

Logging out of Tidal and logging back in may help. Make sure you are up to date on Tidal software and push an update if necessary.

After that, powering off your server and reiniating / rebooting may help. You can also look at updating the software for the your server.

Since I'm not familiar with BlueSound I can't address it, specifically.

Updating my Router firmware has also fixed dropouts, and it is the first place I now go to start troubleshooting.
snafujg
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@jaytor , I will be trying with my own files today and will report back later tonight.

@david_ten , thanks for all your hints so far.  I've checked my router and it's on the latest firware.  Same thing with my Blusound Node 2 that serves as my streamer to the Termy.  My Termy was purchased new June 4, 2019.  I did get it used but was told it had the latest DSP board in it.  Is there a way I can check on the current FW installed?  I tried searching around for it but can't find the procedure to see what FW I'm currently on.  
david_ten OP
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Perhaps @alvin1118 can comment.

I don't have the unit so I can't actively check. My advice would be to go through the firmware update anyways, that way you will be sure to have the most current version. 

However, I'll repeat what I stated above...Tidal dropouts are more likely being caused by something other than the DAC.
snafujg
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I spent about three hours of listening to my own music last night and had no dropouts.  This was playing from a USB drive I have inserted in the Node 2 running thru the Termy.  Most likely the issue is with Tidal itself as @jaytor suggested.  If I find any other issues I'll report back but I think I'm all good for now.  Thanks @david_ten for your suggestions.  I will try the FW upgrade once I get my laptop up.  
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