Finally! A Denafrips Terminator 15th review. (Hint: It did well)

@soix

My Hermes I’ve had for about 3 years. It was connected to my previous DAC, the Denafrips Venus II. At that time I had the Tublus Argentus I2s between them. I use the Hermes as an input selector between my Aurender N200 and my CEC TL1x CD transport. At the time of implementation of the Hermes 2 things jumped off to me. I had a better more defined bass response-not just bigger but more detailed too.  Secondly the soundstage became wider, deeper and a tad bit more delineated in the layering. With this in mind, I never removed it when I added the Terminator 15th, which I bought in December 2024. What I did was added two Oyiade 510 BNC Clock cables and initiated the clock out sync feature on the Terminator. I knew that this enhancement was available, have read it helps on pervious Terminators such as the Terminator Plus which this DAC is really a replica of with newer FPGA software. Since then I have replaced the Tubulous with a Revelation Audio Labs I2s/HDMI cable. I like the RAL a little better as it’s more dimensional and enhances Timbre. 

Thanks for sharing.  I just wish he’d had something in the Terminator’s price class to compare it to, but clearly it’s a superior DAC its price point.  I see you have the Hermes — did you notice a significant improvement with it, and what connection and cable are you using between it and the DAC (didn’t see that on your system page).

Congratulations!

I lied about the article i will read it...

 My deepest  respect...

I only shared this because I own this DAC so I have an interest in other’s opinions of it. There are no other reviews of it anywhere, so for those interested in it there is now an opinion of it available. I am very happy with it. I share his thoughts on transparency and soundstage.

Same Old Song And Dance!

My actual dac is probably inferior but satisfy me completely for my speakers and especially for my high end AKG K340...

I paid it 8 years ago 20 bucks on a bid new...

The Terminator cost near 10,000 Canadian Dollars ...

My system value is 1000 bucks...

I will not read the review ... 

But if Denafrips lend me one i will wrote a review  comparaing with my own .. 

 I will be as "objective" as "Absolute sound"  but i think Denafrips could fear my challenge...

Anyway it is true we need a very top system proportionate to the dac High end Quality   to compare 2 dac, but my AKG K340 driven by My Sansui alpha are on the threshold of  high end ... 

I am provocative  then i apologize to Denafrips brand which i dont doubt will beat my sublime  low cost SPS Dac...

The question is how and at what price ? 

;)

Was a very descriptive and thorough review, thanks for post.