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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
luisma31
516 posts
 
I have tried the USB connected directly to a fanless low powered endpoint and the results on the USB are outstanding, note internally the DAC will buffer and reclock the signal, that added to the excellent built in power supply of this DAC makes the system "less dependant" on external factors like USB quality, Linear Power supplies for the equipment etc.
That said using good USB cables, LPS powered NUCs (I have a Nuc like yours with a JS2) etc. will improve thngs

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tony1954
1,027 posts
 
Alvin,
Thanks for the response. Bluesound does not have that option, but Tidal does. Let me explore a bit and see what I can do. Regardless, I can use the MQA output from the Node 2 for my headphones and the Ares for CD quality and as a replacement for the dac in my Oppo.
smodtactical
967 posts
 
For you denafrips owners, what other dacs did you find the denafrips performed better than? Either at a similar level or more pricey?
johnss
569 posts
 
did not listen to all dacs, but did compare to scarlatti which was better, but also a lot more cash.

even at 2x-3x  the price  point for each of the respective denafrips dacs, you are not going to beat them.


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jb45
11 posts
 

Is there a US repair center for warranty and non warranty repairs?  or are all repairs done at Vinshine Audio?

Thanks
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