Denafrips Pontus R-2R ladder DAC

This was a refreshing and informative review. Nicely done, and you just got another subscriber.

Great review. Thanks. It’s top of my list.

Nice review fellow dutch men:) Mine Denafrips Pontus is being shipped cant wait!

You do fantastic work. Thank you.

Thank you for the review. Very informative

Just wanted to let you know your video helped me make the choice to upgrade from Ares II to Pontus. Totally, totally worth the money. Unbelievable how much more is now revealed in the music.

Fortunately I own the Denafrips Pontus since a few weeks. I've had the Ares II before. It is a real good improvement. I fed the Ares and the Pontus first via USB with an Allo USBridge Signature. As the Pontus has an I2S input, I wanted to give it a try. Therefor I equipped a Raspberry PI with an IAN CANADA FIFOPI Q3 ULTIMATE FIFO Reclocker Module and an IAN CANADA HDMIpi Transmitter I2S / DSD / DoP to HDMI on top to provide the I2S HDMI output. What shall I say, I was blown away by the sonic improvement compared to USB. I can everybody encourage to try this! Thank you for your reviews Hans. Great job!

Nice review as always. By the way, I just bought Denafrips Gaia DDC. Impressive unit. Elevated my already good setup (Simaudio Moon DAC and amp) to another level just by converting USB to AES/EBU in my case. Worth review.

Thank you as always for a thorough review.

Great review as always. Really looking forward to Venus now, it is the price category I am considering.

I’m WIP on my system. Qutest has been recommended to me by dealer I bought my Exposure amps from. At present I only have CA Dacmagic 100. A pal bought hi Hugo over and I was so blown away that I haven’t listened to my Hifi as much as I used to.

Another great review Hans. I've learned so much from your channel. Invaluable info. Could you put the Musical Fidelity MX-DAC? Would love to hear your input.

Thank you again Hans. I hope you get the opportunity to review the Dennafips Terminator. I have been on the fence to move forward with this one or the Holo Audio May II you did a review on.

Wow, what a lovely piece of kit! I don't know why, but I'd love to add an R-2R DAC to my collection. This might be the one!

great review.

Your seal of approval helped convince me to try this Dac. I was not all THAT impressed by the Denafrips Pontus, for the first month. I use an SMSL Sd-9 streamer, with WAV files that I had ripped from my CDs, and streamed from a thumb drive. So I played around with various cable swaps and reclocks. They were all Okay but still something lacking . Then I tried streaming via Bluetooth some Youtube vids. Wow! Suddenly the thing jumped up to a whole new level. Why? Well the first vid was only at 48khz, so it shouldn't be that much better than a typical WAV file, I thought. Then a week later I streamed a vid of a recording with was I was intimately familiar. The 2x was lit on the Dac signifying 88khz sampling. Double wow. It was amazing. It was the first time I'd heard this recording rendered in a way that sounded actually as good as vinyl (or better?). After that I realized, any limitation was not in the Dac but due more likely to something else. Maybe the USB implementation in the streamer was not as good as the bluetooth? But I'm a little baffled and I'd like to know why the 88khz streamed files so vastly trounced the standard redbook files.

Thanks Hans for another interesting review👍 Will you review IFI PRO IDSD in the future?

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Thanks Hans for another highly informative post. What music did you use to evaluate the DAC?

Hans! Thank you for the review. Very thorough! I find it interesting that you compare this to the Mytek, which is known to have a hyper-detailed presentation, which I would say is quite the opposite of what Denafrips aims to produce (a more natural, ‘musical’ sound). Good to know it’s largely on par - definitely an excellent device. What streamer would be up to the task of feeding a Pontus with a good input? The Project one you recently reviewed maybe, or a Munich M1T? The I2S seems perfect given there is an excellent clock in the Pontus.