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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
yyzsantabarbara
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I just spent an hour reading this thread, instead of working. I am interested in how people would connect the DT to a music server via the 12S connection. 

In my current rig I have a powerful desktop computer running ROON, my music server. I send the music bits via Ethernet to my Sonare microRendu and from there, via a USB cable, to my Benchmark DAC3L. This same approach would work for the DT via USB. 

If I wanted to add the DT to my system, how would I connect the DT via I2S cable? Is there anything that takes Ethernet music bits and converts to an I2S format that the DT understands?
david_ten OP
2,509 posts
 
@saleh84  Thanks for your wonderful write-up and sharing your impressions of the Terminator, etc. Very cool!
david_ten OP
2,509 posts
 
@yyzsantabarbara   Reach out to Alvin, who will be able to share the various I2S components paired with the Terminator. He'll also be able to provide the pin settings (should adjustments be required).

My personal preference would be to go USB into the Terminator OVER inserting an I2S convertor into the chain. For me, this defeats the purpose. I'd choose I2S direct only.

The other reason is around cabling. (Offhand, I don't recall where you fall with respect to cables) but there are far more options, and Quality USB options, than with I2S.
david_ten OP
2,509 posts
 
For those that may not know, there is a robust Facebook group for the Terminator. It's a great site to ask questions, especially if you frame them in Italian. : )
yyzsantabarbara
647 posts
 
@david_ten Thanks for the info. I also do not want to do any conversions from USB to I2S. I was hoping for something that did Ethernet-to-I2S directly. Maybe the folks at Sonare read this and come up with a new Rendu offering? I am going to email them today.
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