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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
garyalex
117 posts
 
I ordered the Pontus II a few days ago.  I really like my current DAC, the Border Patrol SEi.  I just got curious after years with the BP.  I'm trying not to bring any bias to my evaluation of the Pontus but I'll be surprised if I prefer it to my BP.  The BP has a warm, organic quality that I really like. Plus, Gary Dews of BP provides great customer support.  I hesitated to make the purchase once I realized I couldn't return it.  If it doesn't work out I'm hoping I'll be able to sell it.  But I'll certainly give it a fair chance.
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jjss49
6,612 posts
 
the pontus will have a brighter more revealing presentation than the border patrol as well as tauter deeper bass... still nice dimensionality and body in the mids and bass but the pontus will provide somewhat more up-front detail, sharper cleaner edges to transients and more ’air’ in the treble region
garyalex
117 posts
 
Thanks.  “Brighter”?  Uh-oh.
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twoleftears
5,320 posts
 
There are very few DACs warmer/softer/whatever you want to call it than the Border Patrol.  So when you bring in another brand, it just depends on how far you want to go in the other direction.
garyalex
117 posts
 
Agreed.  And just because the Pontus’ presentation may be less warm than that of the Border Patrol doesn’t necessarily mean I won’t like it.  I wouldn’t have purchased it if I thought that were true. The only way to know is to listen, and that’s what I’ll do.  It’s just that when I see the word “bright”, especially where digital playback is concerned I get a little worried.
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