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Denafrips Pontus II Clicks Or Static?

There have been some who have reported clicks or static occasionally with their Denafrips Pontus II DAC units.  And there is a test measurement review of the Pontus II 12th on the golden sound website talking about the following:

"When DACs oversample, they can sometimes encounter a situation where the reconstructed/interpolated waveform goes above 0dBfs (the maximum possible digital value)."

"The Pontus 2 is susceptible to intersample overs, and unfortunately, in a particularly bad way."

"The Pontus 2 does not clip, but instead when a sample value reaches above the maximum, it ‘wraps around’ to the minimum negative value, causing a huge sudden transient which will be very audible and may appear as crackling/popping."

Has anyone with a Pontus II encountered this anomaly when playing CDs?  If so, can you elaborate about that?  I am aware that the Pontus II can be firmware upgraded, so if this is an occasional issue, it could be eliminated with an upgrade.

 

 

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I know this post is very late on this topic- 

The Denafrips POP

I purchased a used Pontius II 12th yesterday. swapped it into my system with the Pontius feeding into  Backert Labs Rhumba 1.0. I was listening at a low db level evaluating the sound and about 5 minutes into the listening  session I got the pop. The pop blew out something in my preamp where now I have a low volume, 100hz oscillating sound in both speakers of my system and will need to send the preamp out for repairs.

Anyone else have a pop like this?

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