Another Dac question


Has anyone had firsthand experience with both the Pontus two and the Baltic three? I am currently using a Pontus and have an opportunity to purchase a Baltic three almost new at great price. Thanks in advance.

bikeboy52

I had a Terminator Plus, I really liked it until I tried a used 5 year old Lampizator Golden Gate 1.  The Lampizator was better in every way but most importantly more musical.  

Denafrips is undergoing some turmoil with their sales platform and they seem to release a newly upgraded models very often making newly purchased gear old quickly.  They used to be a great value but their prices have risen with each upgrade so they are not the giant killers they used to be.  I had a love hate relationship with their firmware update.  It was nice that I could download the update but their warnings of bricking the DAC if I made a mistake was unsettling.  After the last firmware update it made my Denafrips Iris incompatible so I sold them both.

I sent my Golden Gate back to Poland for hardware upgrades.  That's something Denafrips doesn't support.