Should I add a DDC?

The shorter the cable the better.  I think mine is 1m.  I bought my Hermes used and the pin settings worked perfectly when I connected it to the Pontus.  Denafrips has a section in the setup guide for the DDC about configuring the pins.  I beleive it’s trial and error but I don’t believe there are too many combinations to try.

Re the DH Labs Ethernet cable (the Reunion). Really great. I put it in about six months ago, in lieu of a Chord Clearvue cable. It goes into an Eversolo DMP A6 and from there into an MSB Discrete DAC. I still don't understand how this happened but as soon as put in the DH Labs the sound volume went significantly up (along with becoming clearer). I'm thinking of getting the Reunion raw cable now and stringing it in the wall from my telecom router to the ethernet port near the audio setup.

@pbecker128 That's good to know. Thanks for the info. 

With a cost of a clock plus additional cables why not just step up to a Terminator instead of dumping money into clocks and cables. I’m having a hard time believing a clock on the Pontus will bridge a performance gap between it and the Terminator. 

 @jastralfu  thank you! So yours worked first time? You didn’t have to play with the settings? So hope that will be the case for me..

@audphile1 I read a review that specifically stated that going this route is still less costly than bumping up to Terminator. Supposedly this performance is equal to Terminator when compared. Plus I could not afford to spend that much at this point and already have the Pontus…

@sls883 The 2.1 DH Labs cable specifically stated is I2S so I feel good about that😬