Article: Denafrips Terminator II Review and Comparison

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20 minutes ago, Blake said:

Nice job Chris, I enjoyed your review.  I had the original Terminator and then moved to the Terminator Plus.  I'd echo your comments regarding the sonic differences as I found the same differences/improvements. 

 

Did Alvin send you a Denafrips DDC?  If so, I think it would be beneficial to consumers to have you comment on sonic changes when using the clock out feature of the Terminator 2.   To me, I find very nice further improvement with the clock-out engaged and that is a big selling point of the Terminator 2 over the original.

 

 

Thanks Blake. Alvin offered a Denafrips DDC but I wasn't sure I could get to it in a reasonable amount of time, so I passed for now. I agree, it would be nice to give it a try.

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6 minutes ago, Martin Herløv Andersen said:

Please, please (: consider writing a review of the Holo Audio May DAC.

 

The terminator and the may dac is on everybody lips this days but I haven't found a good comparison of the two

I reached out to get one but never heard back. 

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1 hour ago, BrownMagic said:

 

https://www.soundstagenetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2612:denafrips-terminator-plus-digital-to-analog-converter-measurements&catid=434&Itemid=577

 

You can see in the above measurements that NOS is not really NOS. This was also called out by GoldenSound in his review. 

I believe it depends on what sample rate is being sent to the DAC. If one sends 1,536 kHz, it’s NOS. 

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35 minutes ago, GoldenOne said:

Cause the 'NOS' mode still applies an oversampling filter, therefore it is not 'non-oversampling'. Simple as that really.

It might not do so when feeding it 768khz or 1.536mhz, but then you'd need to be doing oversampling with HQPlayer or another external OS tool anyway. Meaning you're still oversampling.

It cannot play standard PCM content at 44.1khz without oversampling.

 

Which begs the question, do people really listen to NOS mode with content that isn’t externally upsampled?