Denafrips Ares II - Why did you sell?

Indeed. Many of our customers bought the Ares II to have a taste of the DENAFRIPS sound prior to moving up to the next level up model.

I see an interesting trend recently - some customers bought the Terminator II/Plus after a few weeks of owning the Ares II. It means a lot to us 😃

I will be listing my Ares 2 soon. Purchased a Yggy LIM and love it’s SQ more. 

@ozziegurkan 

You should have tried a Denafrips Venus II.

Hehe. Maybe. Never rule that out. 

I just sold an Aeres II last week.  I bought is as an experiment because of all the talk with the fairly inexpensive R2R dacs and how they sound more "tubey" than many chip dacs.  My current Dac is a Hegel HD30 which was almost 5x the cost of the Aeres and I'll be very honest in that the Aeres sounded almost as good but I didn't hear much change as to the sound from my Hegel so I decided to sell it and stay with the HD30.

I would say if I didn't already own the Hegel, The Ares II would have certainly been a temporary keeper.  I thought it sounded great and for less than $800 how can you go wrong.  I purchased it used and sold it in a few days for about a $50 loss which I think was well worth the exercise to learn if the R2R was something I should further investigate.  In the end I've decided to go the other direction and start auditioning  tube dacs.  Nothing wrong with the Hegel just always looking to improve my system.