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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
david_ten OP
2,509 posts
 
@yyzsantabarbara   A Sonore I2S streamer would be really cool.

Currently, with USB into the Terminator via the Sonore Signature Rendu SE ... my system performance (for me) is exquisite. There are a number of factors that have contributed to this. The SR PowerCell 12 SE has done wonders across the system and the recent addition of the ethernet bridged Small Green Computer Server has also elevated performance.

Mentioning this because, even without going to I2S, the Terminator continues to scale upwards.
david_ten OP
2,509 posts
 
Very good comparative review (between DACs) by Austinbob // at Computer Audiophile, with his current installment focused on the Terminator:

https://www.computeraudiophile.com/ca/reviews/my-quest-for-a-new-dac-part-3-denafrips-terminator-r74...
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jriggy
292 posts
 
Has anyone heard the Terminator sound better after being on for more than a couple days? 
I recently heard it for a number of days and thought I noticed better sound by a tangible margin after a few days from it’s last turn on. 
anwar
75 posts
 
A couple of days is not enough.  After about 2 months, I heard no more improvement.  Please don't remove the AC power but you can put the Terminator on standby.  
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jriggy
292 posts
 
@anwar
So the front power button is just ‘standby’? I wasn’t talking about unplugging the unit.
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