Can you provide a little more detail on the Pontus II 15th Anniversary verses the other Dac comparisons? Richer sounding can be bad if it's closed in and dark sounding...
Wig
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What I can say is 2 of their new engineers Cal poly tech , anything going forwards from 15 on dual bigger transformers 80vac dual higher precision clocks As well as low noise regulators smoothing capacitors much higher quality Evox capacitors from Japan the big white ones ,used in the Terminator , If you want warmer you go with the nos but Tom if you want a bit more leading edge precision and still slightly warm the oversampling , Buch better depth of image, vs the harmony I feel better balanced especially with nos or no nos , with the Big silver gold transformers better bass control, asa bonus , what I found is my wife’s Iris 12th DDC reclocker is much better then the previous gen and cleans the signal up very nicely runn8ng a hdmi -I2S cable to the dac , for less monies then the harmony ,it is now I feel as good as the Venus 12, now Denafrips had no choice but to design a new Venus 15 coming out in a month. In a Ca. Audio group my brother met one of the new engineers born in China and great at what he does in digital.
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@lanx0003 I have it running 24/7. Either streaming or a CD on repeat. Will report back in a few days with a 100 hour report. |
Wig the pontus 2 my wife has and Iris ddc , my audio buddy 2 towns over has the pontus 12th the 15th on all their gear is now a generation better with these new engineers ,when Alvin left he took one of Denafrips engineers ,for the harmony which is a good dac , the pontus has non oversampling,and over sampling which is good it gives you solid choices this new dac much better resolution ,then the 12th anniversary which was a bit better, this 15 model is a big jump up with the Iris 12 ddc added,now buying a reclocker is s no brainer it cleans the signal before it goes into the dac ,the Hermes better still but $1300. for $550: for the Newer Iris 12 it is clearly better then my wife’s gen 2 model. I2S is built into the newer Iris 12 .Wireworld Hdmi uses the same pin out as PS audio does . Just look inside on these 15 series dacs vs the previous 12 th. Pretty apparent , my unit still needs breakin ,but my friends has 400 hours ,I bought a older terminator 2 from my brother that is a solid dac , the new one in another league yet to hear it though Very good technologies in digital are progressing rapidly. |
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