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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

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erik_squires
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So I'm a Roon user, and while I get the headroom settings, why on earth would you buy an expensive R2R dac if you are going to feed it DSD??

That makes no sense to me.
erik_squires
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This is a very complete product which you would get not only for the R2R section, that's what I'm trying to say.


Huh.  If they say that the DSD conversion sounds better, it certainly invites me to price shop for a DAC that spent the same amount in the DSD output but not the PCM.

Buy what you will, but if you are going to run them this way, make sure you compare this way as well.

Best,

E
erik_squires
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Erik's point I think is you could get a cheaper DS DAC if you prefer DSD (for some reason) and forget about the ladder part.


Kind of. As I understand it, the whole raison de'etre of the DENAFRIPS line of DACs is the discrete R2R ladder, no? Conversely, the whole point of DSD is to simplify the reconstruction circuit to a switch and capacitor with an output filter.

Also, yes, I've heard Roon's DSD upsampling, and at least on my system it sounds brighter and harder, not better while soaking up CPU time on the server.

But it's his ears and his money. If he likes the sound better that way, that's his choice.


@jaytor No doubt, I'm just confused here, it's like buying a fancy French chef's knife to chop wood.
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