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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]
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Seems like the Venus product is a combination of a Terminator DAC front end with a rewired Terminator face plate put into a Pontus chassis case with a Pontus power supply. The Terminator has 2 more I2S inputs than the Pontus/Venus. The Pontus/Venus share a common weight of 8.5kG and common S/N ratio and dynamic range, whereas the Terminator has a weight of 19kG and better S/N ratio and dynamic range specs. Terminator seems to have a better chassis and far beefier P/S.

And why the company opted to use the word “Reserval” instead of “Phase” for the Pontus/Venus face plates is a mystery. 
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