The Digital To Analog Decoder for music lovers
To commemorate DENAFRIPS’s 15 years of digital audio excellence, the most popular best selling PONTUS 15TH Anniversary Edition features several performance enhancements at components level that might not be visible by the naked eyes but certainly audible for the seasoned and trained audiophiles' ears.
The original Pontus II DAC shattered the expectations of what a R-2R Ladder DAC could be. PONTUS 15TH
superior sound quality enhancement took it to another level.
The PONTUS 15TH is a true balanced, dual mono R-2R Ladder Network Arrays DAC. Each channel is equipped with independent high-speed FPGA to facilitate the digital signal decoding by means of 4 sets of 0.01% R-2R network. The choice of such design yield very small linearity error, high decoding speed, low digital noise, not only to ensure that the audio signal is of very low distortion, but also to ensure a very low background music noise; allow listener to enjoy the true music with dark background.
All digital input are FIFO buffered and reclocked by the on board FEMTO crystal oscillators. The excellent rejection of word-clock jitter makes DENAFRIPS DAC less reliance to the source equipment clock quality. PONTUS 15TH can
transform your consumer grade computer, CDPlayer to high-end sound quality.
Non-Oversampling R-2R DAC /Signal fed to the DAC remain in its native sampling rate without additional processing. PONTUS 15TH is a true NOS DAC.
ENCAPSULATED
LINEAR POWER SUPPLY
Clean power equates to the foundation of good sound. A dedicated linear power supply unit, designed and encased in a 1.5mm thick metal alloy enclosure, can be found underneath the DAC motherboard.
The box-within-box design, not only does it eliminates the inherited problems of dual box solution, it presents the details and attentions DENAFRIPS put into the premium DAC design.
Beefy dual O-Core Transformers for Digital and Analog sections, Ultra-Low ESR, Long Endurance Reservoir Capacitors, and multi-stages super linear power supply, ensuring ultra precision, low ripple power supply charging up DAC.
Technical Highlights:
1.Proprietary R2R + DSD Architecture
2.True balanced 24BIT R2R + 6BIT DSD (32 steps FIR Filters)
3.Native DSD decoding with 0.01% precision resistors
4.FEMTO Crystal 45.1548MHz, 49.152Mhz
5.Encapsulated Ultra Low Noise Power Supply
6.Adaptive FIFO Buffer Reclocking
7.New Improved DSP Digital Signal Processing FPGA Code
8.DSD1024, PCM1536 Supports On USB & I²S Input
9.Proprietary USB Audio Solution via STM32F446 Advanced AMR Based MCU
10Licensed Thesycon USB Driver For Windows Platform
11.Driverless On Mac & Linux
12.Dual AES/EBU Input Supports
13.Sharp/Slow Filters Option
14:I²S Pinout Configuration
15: I²S DSD Channel Swap Configuration
DSD
DSD64-DoP On All Input
DSD1024 On USB & I²S Input Only
PCM
24bits / 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192KHz On All Input
1536kHz On USB & I²S Input
Sampling Mode: Non-Oversampling NOS / Oversampling OS
Digital Input
Coax 1 via RCA
Coax 2 via BNC 75 Ω
TOSLink x 1
AES/EBU x 2
USB
I²S via HDMI LVDS
Analog Output
RCA at 2.0Vrms, 625 Ω
XLR at 4.0Vrms, 1250 Ω
Product parameters:
Frequency Response: 20-70KHz -3dB
THD+N: 0.0025%
S/N Ratio: 120dB
Dynamic Range: >121dB
Stereo Crosstalk: -110dB
AC Power Requirement: 100-240VAC, 50/60Hz (Worldwide Voltage)
Power Consumption: ≤20W
Dimension: 320 x 330 x 110 mm (Including feet)
Package Dim: 470 x 440 x 175 mm
Package Content: DAC only. No power cord & remote control.
Weight: 8.5 Kg
