PONTUS 15TH
A Digital-to-Analog Converter for Music Enthusiasts
Pontus 15TH has achieved an unprecedented breakthrough in audio quality. Employing advanced audio enhancement technologies, it delivers sound that is even more nuanced, profound, and layered. This is not merely a simple upgrade; it represents a profound challenge and transcendence of traditional audio perceptions, offering audio enthusiasts an unparalleled auditory feast.
This DAC boasts a genuine balanced R-2R ladder network array design, with each channel equipped with an independent high-speed CPLD.It decodes digital signals through four sets of 0.05% R-2R networks,ensuring extremely low distortion and background noise in the audio signals.Every note resonates vividly and fully,leaping into the listener's ears.
maintain the original sampling rate of audio signals to the greatest extent. Additionally, all digital inputs undergo FIFO buffering and are re-clocked by an on-board CPLD crystal oscillator,providing exceptional jitter suppression capabilities. This minimizes the DAC's reliance on the source device's clock quality, further enhancing audio quality.
Pontus 15TH's power design also exemplifies remarkable ingenuity. The innovative box-in-box design perfectly isolates the DAC motherboard from the linear power supply unit, effectively preventing external interference from impacting audio quality. Meanwhile, the metal alloy casing enhances the purity and stability of the power supply.
Upgrade Details
Low Phase Noise Oscillator
Major Upgrade of Capacitors
True Balanced R-2R
Ladder Network
Hand-picked tight tolerance resistors
Optimize the Circuit System
All digital input are FIFO buffered and reclocked by the on board LPNO 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.
Enhanced PSU & Conductors
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Pure Silver Cable and conductors for power transfer from PSU to DAC mainboard
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Fine Tuning of the PSU at components level to further enhanced the AC/DC rectifiers and DC regulators
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.
MID-END DAC
With its outstanding audio performance, precise decoding capabilities, and innovative power design, Pontus 15TH stands out in the high-end audio realm as a shining new star. It is not merely an audio device; it is an ultimate pursuit and tribute to the art of music.
FEATURED REVIEWS
6moons - Blue Moon Award
The effect is quite striking. Envision a picture that had some low-level details obscured. Suddenly a light from within reveals those missing details. It doesn't make tone colors paler. There's no bleaching, no undue sharpness or glare. It's indeed the same picture, just with more information. With Pontus you hear bigger space, room echoes that lack with Ares II, musicians breathing. You gain a more organic impression because real life has many of those little parasitic sounds that only are noticed when stripped out but which contribute to the live feel.
Credit:
Frederic Beudot @ 6moons
