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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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jjss49
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price increases fairly modest - about $100 USD per piece

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ozzy62
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price increases fairly modest - about $100 USD per piece

 

Exactly. When you consider the performance you get from their products, it's still far and away a bargain.

kingdeezie
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Has anyone experienced a tumultuous break-in process? 

 

I purchased a Denafrips Terminator II last month. I plugged it in and the first time listening to it I was very encouraged by the sound. 

 

What I should have done is hooked everything up right and let music play for 7-10 days. Instead I was lazy and just used it intermittently for 10 hours or so over a period of a few weeks. 

 

This weekend the sound wasn't great. The midrange seemed overly warm/veiled and the highs were all over the place. 

 

I finally hooked up everything as it should be and have been running it 24/7 since Sunday. 

 

Anyone else notice changes during the first 100 hours?   

mr_m
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If you're concerned about price increases, check out some of Chord's price increases. Looks like their "Cutest" dac went from $1698 to $1945. That's a fairly large increase for a design That's several years old now.

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ozzy62
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@kingdeezie 

i received my Pontus II last week and listened over the long weekend. Sounded excellent out of the gate. I have had it running 24/7 since Sunday night so it should have a good amount of hours on it now. I plan to listen again tonight and hopefully things are even better now.

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