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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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daddy_o_65
9 posts
 
Another member on AS provided these Roon settings and I gotta say, I'm really liking them on my Terminator (my ultraRendu is set to native DSD), I am streaming Tidal and local files:

Roon Instructions:

 

In Roon, tap the speaker icon in the bottom right corner, tap "DSP".  tap "Headroom Management", and set the value to -5 dB, this lowers the level before oversampling to avoid clipping during the oversampling process.  In the same field, set "Show Clipping Indicator" to "on".  This will tell you if you have an clipping during playback (if you do, you can lower the headroom management a couple more dB, but usually -5 dB is enough).  Tap, "Sample Rate Conversion", and set sample rate conversion to "DSD".  Set "DSD Sample Rate" to 256,  Set "Sample Rate Conversion Filter" to "Precise, Linear Phase" (I prefer this setting, but you can try others of course).  Set "Sigma Delta Modulator" to "7th order CLANS", leave "SDM Gain Adjustment" at "0", set "Parallelize Sigma-Delta Modulator" to "Yes", set "Enable Native DSD Processing" to "Yes".  The DSD to PCM settings are irrelevant.

Before you exit, double check on the left that "Headroom Management", and "Sample Rate Conversion" are enabled.


Just thought I would share with this group.


P.S.  Looking forward to my Gaia- should ship within the next week or two!

daddy_o_65
9 posts
 
Wow, looks like I set off a mini-storm above with my Roon settings.  

1. With the Terminator, you get options with DSD or PCM, both of which sound excellent in my system.  I had a pure, PCM-only ladder DAC, which I really enjoyed (Yggy Analog 2 and others), but I wanted options and even better sound quality- that is why I bought the Terminator.

2. Ultimate sound quality for the dollar is the raison d' etre of the Terminator IMHO.

3. The DSD section was not added to the Terminator as some after thought like a display dimmer setting.  

4. The argument above about wasting money if one is using the DSD- section, I can make the same argument to you...  why did you "waste" your money on the Terminator, which has a DSD section you also paid for, but are not using?  Using your logic, go buy a PCM only ladder DAC and save your dollars.  I don't view DAC's as commodities so I don't personally agree with this logic but I have no problems if others view things that way.  

5. I didn't say oversampled DSD with the settings I listed is the ultimate or that I exclusively use DSD, or that my settings can beat up your preferred settings.  I listen to PCM and oversampled DSD on my Terminator and enjoy both (I don't have any DSD music files). 

Enjoy and remember, we Denafrips owners are all on the same team.  This is just a hobby and we like what we like.
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