Any thoughts on Denafrips Terminator Plus

@26mo18pts No need to pay any attention to the racists and xenophobes, especially bitter ex-distributors who changes his tune 180 degrees about a brand after getting the line pulled from him. I guess racism is an acceptable emotional coping mechanism in today's world, certainly cheaper than therapy.

The Denafrips line of DACs are thoroughly tested and reviewed by pretty much every popular outlet on the internet, and the results are all excellent. The house sound is big bold sound with a lot of body and layered details for the money. The Terminator in particular is absolutely fantastic.

We implemented the serial number early this year: 
https://www.vinshineaudio.com/so/5dN3cxJA5

Cheers,
Alvin
www.vinshineaudio.com

I spoke with Alvin by email today and also a Denafrips owner in Canada to understand a bit more about the Terminator along with the statements about the serial #. Of course, the video I posted above was racist, bitter, and sad but the serial # was something I wanted clarified.

All my questions are answered now and I am going to get my second DAC, the Terminator Plus with the Iris (DDC). The sound I am after is described above, "The house sound is big bold sound with a lot of body and layered details for the money".

This DAC will be a nice contrast to my current DAC, a Benchmark DAC3B. Which I will be keeping.

While I build and prefer R2R discrete DACs, the notion that they sound better than other implementations is subjective.  Each offers sounding that the other does not offer in sound quality.  Words like state of the art, big bold, are not helpful unless you can show the differences between other DACs in comparison.  I have a very cheap Chinese DAC that sounds like that until you make a direct comparison to other company products.  IMO the Terminator DAC is nice sounding for the money but it is not state of the art by any means but again is a very nice sound for the money.  A friend has the Mojo audio DAC which he has modified and after the modifications he is very impressed with the sound.  He has owned and modified several DACs that have been recommended in these forums in a similar price range and so far has settled on that DAC for now.

Happy Listening.

@yyzsantabarbara I used to have a Benchmark DAC2 HGC, and perhaps it was because I didn't use a high quality power cable, but I remember it sounding clean but not entirely engaging. Since then I've had Border Patrol dac which was too warm and colored, then the Lab12 tube dac which was incredibly organic and analog but lacked dynamics and detail, finally arrived at Denafrips Terminator which seems to combine the strong points of all my previous DACs.

As this hobby goes, I am still curious about the Terminator Plus, Mojo Audio's Mystique, and I think my dream DAC would be the Rockna Wavedream Signature Balanced.