What lots of guys greatly overlook is the build quality , from my experiences and through audio clubs I have gone to that take the cover off and look under the hood
the New Denafrips gear from what others that own it the New Engineering team
at Denafrips is really good I heard the new Terminator 15 it sounded great in a Big audio system their best dac to date and was like 45lbs and 2 sections with mu metal separating the power supplies , the little guy 18 lb Pontus 15 also have dual transformers ,they call it a Baby terminator was very good ,at $2100 nothing was close in its price class and proffered it to the Harmony which is not even close on build quality the pontus had 2 floors ,bottom for the huge power supplies and big transformers and a ton of high quality capacitors from Japan .up top dual precision clocks and FPGA buffers and a few other things I didnot understand .they are discontinuing the Venus 12, because the pontus is that close ,now a new more expensive Venus 15 coming out soon , that good news for the buyer ,competition.