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

Showing 9 responses by jriggy

Has anyone heard the Terminator sound better after being on for more than a couple days? 
I recently heard it for a number of days and thought I noticed better sound by a tangible margin after a few days from it’s last turn on. 
@anwar
So the front power button is just ‘standby’? I wasn’t talking about unplugging the unit.
thanks
jjss49, weird, that’s pretty much the opposite of what I’d say about the Termi. 
^^ Great review!
IMO it speaks to why the Terminator DAC can work so well in a warmish tube based system or with warmish speakers.
@david_ten what’s the rest of your system again? I feel like I read it somewhere a while ago. 

Good write up BTW

Thanks
 Jason 
I’ve been there. Not with my Terminator but with other great gear...more than once. It happens. Has even happened with cars! 
Been waiting on the new DSP board for weeks. But it’s supposed to be soon, now that some 10 day Chinese holiday is over on the 10th.