DENAFRIPS Terminator Manual
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1. INTRODUCTION

Thank you for choosing DENAFRIPS products! You have made the right choice to purchase
the company's FLAGSHIP DAC! Congratulation!
The Terminator is DENAFRIPS' flagship DAC. Being a flagship, the Terminator is filled with
our years of R&D achievement in it. State of the art fourth generation discrete resistor 26Bit
R-2R for PCM decoding, 6Bit DSD hardware decoding with 32 steps FIR filters, a total
breakthrough of the traditional integrated chip constraints.
Dedicated encapsulated power supply section within the same chassis is equipped with Dual
Type-O Transformers, Ultra-Low ESR Reservoir Capacitors, and WALT Jung Super Regulators
and multi-stages super linear power supply to power up the DAC.
The DAC core conversion module R-2R is constructed with 0.005% high precision, 10ppm
low thermal effect precision resistors. Each channel uses more than 500pcs of these
precision resistors, or 1000pcs for two channels, it's 4 times more than the other typical R-
2R DAC. These achieve a truly astonishing low distortion, full balanced design. CRYSTEK
FEMTO clocks are used with FIFO Adaptive Buffer Technology to ensure the DAC clock is less
dependent to the input source.
It will be the Reference Master Class DAC of DENAFRIPS for the next 10 years.
COPYRIGHT © DENAFRIPS
COPYRIGHT © VINSHINE AUDIO
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  • Page 1 Thank you for choosing DENAFRIPS products! You have made the right choice to purchase the company’s FLAGSHIP DAC! Congratulation! The Terminator is DENAFRIPS' flagship DAC. Being a flagship, the Terminator is filled with our years of R&D achievement in it. State of the art fourth generation discrete resistor 26Bit R-2R for PCM decoding, 6Bit DSD hardware decoding with 32 steps FIR filters, a total breakthrough of the traditional integrated chip constraints.
  • Page 2 DAC. Let’s put it this way, the number of jitter in Terminator DAC can only be caused by the quality of FIFO active crystal. Terminator crystals are high end CRYSTEK FEMTO 9 series clock, and powered by LDO regulator, the jitter is so small that it can be neglected.
  • Page 3 2.6 PROPRIETARY R-2R AND DSD DECODING ARCHITECTURE The Terminator is equipped with 26Bit R-2R DAC to decode PCM data stream and 32 steps FIR analogue filters hardware decoder to decode DSD data stream. These designs guaranteed the PCM format can be perfectly decoded, at the same time, the DSD format can be perfectly decoded as well.
  • Page 4 3. INSTALLATION AND SETUP The Terminator is easy to use. Nonetheless, DENAFRIPS advice to read this section to fully understand the functions and features available. Figure 1. Terminator Front Panel Description: (1) Standby Button Press the button once to switch on the DAC, vice versa, press once to switch the DAC into standby mode.
  • Page 5 2. Press the Mute button once to enter configuration mode 3. Press the NOS button momentarily  CO1 On = DSD Channel Swap  CO2 On = Normal 4. Wait for 10s 5. DAC back in operational mode COPYRIGHT © DENAFRIPS COPYRIGHT © VINSHINE AUDIO...
  • Page 6 BCK(+) BCK(-) L/RCLK(-) L/RCLK(+) DATA(-) DATA(+) BCK(+) BCK(-) L/RCLK(+) L/RCLK(-) DATA(+) DATA(-) BCK(+) BCK(-) L/RCLK(-) L/RCLK(+) DATA(+) DATA(-) BCK(+) BCK(-) L/RCLK(+) L/RCLK(-) Table 1. I2S PINOUT CONFIGURATION Figure 1. Terminator HDMI i2s Input COPYRIGHT © DENAFRIPS COPYRIGHT © VINSHINE AUDIO...
  • Page 7 16X = 2X + 8X 768 kHz 32X = 4X + 8X 1536 kHz DSD 64 DSD 128 DSD 256 DSD 512 16X = 2X + 8X DSD 1024 Table 1. Sampling Rate COPYRIGHT © DENAFRIPS COPYRIGHT © VINSHINE AUDIO...
  • Page 8 DENAFRIPS smart power management technology. (2) Analog Audio Signal Output Balanced output via XLR (pin2 hot), singled ended output via RCA. The Terminator is a true balanced DAC, we recommend using balanced output whenever possible. The RCA and XLR output are shared, please use either of the output at a time.
  • Page 9 24bit/44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192 kHz All Input Supported Format (PCM) 44.1 – 1536 kHz USB & I²S Only S/N Ratio 115dB(RCA), 114dB(XLR) Dynamic Range >132dB Stereo Crosstalk -110dB Dimension 430*380*105 mm Weight 19.0kg COPYRIGHT © DENAFRIPS COPYRIGHT © VINSHINE AUDIO...
  • Page 10 5. WARRANTY & SUPPORTS DENAFRIPS Terminator purchased from the Authorized Distributor comes with 36 months of warranty from the date of purchase / delivery (whichever later). Customers shall bear the two-way shipping cost for RMA. In event of tampering found on the unit, the warranty shall be voided.

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