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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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divertiti
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Hi everyone, what is your experience with XLR vs. RCA output on the Terminator? Does one sound obviously better than the other? Is there any point going balanced if it's a short length anyway?
divertiti
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That's really interesting, I wonder besides the higher sample rates, if there are noticeable sonic improvements for red book streaming.
divertiti
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@alvin1118 Thanks Alvin, try using Roon upsampling at PCM (power of 2) and switch tracks or pause and start songs quickly, would be curious as to what you find. Thanks.
divertiti
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@73max I am very glad you have brought up the intermittent distortion issue, I have been experiencing the same thing for months now. It is a metallic ringing scratching noise that is a constant distortion over the music. It happens at random when switching to a next track or resuming playback. The fix is to pause and restart playback, it's almost like the read/write of the buffer gets corrupted.

Clearly this isn't an isolated incident, have you been able to get in touch with Alvin and/or fix the issue?
divertiti
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@jaytor Perhaps we can triangulate the cause, I am streaming through USB from an SOTM Trifacta stack into Roon, upsampling using PCM power of 2. I think we can safely eliminate the streamer since we are all using different ones. It happens when I stream both Tidal and Qobuz, so it's not streaming service specific. The commonality is Terminator, USB, and Roon upsampling right now it seems.

@73max What type of setup are you running when experiencing this issue?
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