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1. INTRODUCTION
Thank you for choosing DENAFRIPS products!
PONTUS is DENAFRIPS premium DAC. To achieve the highest possible sound quality within
the price constraint, DENAFRIPS adopted a lot of the technology and architecture can be
found in the flagship DAC, the TERMINATOR. Yes, that's right, Pontus is designed about the
similar architecture of the Terminator. Pontus is further enhanced in the power supply
design compared to Ares. The power supply is encapsulated in a 1.5mm thick metal alloy,
equipped with dual o-core transformers, completely isolated super linear regulator power
supply for digital and analogue section, ensuring low noise, high availability power supply to
the DAC.
The Pontus employs true balance R-2R DAC design. Each channel is equipped with
independent high-speed FPGA to control the decoding by 4 sets of 0.01% R-2R network. This
design has very small linear error, high decoding speed, low digital noise, not only to ensure
that the audio signal is low distortion, but also to ensure a very low background music noise;
allow listener to enjoy the true music with dark background.
We are confident Pontus sound quality far exceed its modest price tag.
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- Page 1 DENAFRIPS adopted a lot of the technology and architecture can be found in the flagship DAC, the TERMINATOR. Yes, that’s right, Pontus is designed about the similar architecture of the Terminator. Pontus is further enhanced in the power supply design compared to Ares.
- Page 2 DAC. Let’s put it this way, the number of jitter in Pontus DAC can only be caused by the quality of FIFO active crystal. Pontus’ crystals are Japanese NDK made, 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 Pontus is equipped with 24Bit R-2R DAC to decode PCM data stream and 32 steps FIR analog 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 Pontus is easy to use. Nonetheless, DENAFRIPS advice to read this section to fully understand the functions and features available. Figure 1. Pontus 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 MODE – Updated 15 Sep 2017 DENAFRIPS HDMI i2s Pin-out is configurable to mate with various non-industrial- standard i2s source devices. In i2s input mode, press 'Mode' button to select different configuration as per following table. The LEDs 1X, 2X, 4X serve as indications of 2s' binary combination from 000 - 111 (2 ^ 3 = 8 configurations).
- Page 6 96 kHz 48 kHz 192 kHz 384 kHz DSD 64 DSD 128 DSD 256 Table 2. Sampling Rate COPYRIGHT © DENAFRIPS P a g e | V 3 . 0 | 2 4 N o v 2 0 1 7...
- Page 7 DENAFRIPS smart power management technology. (2) Analog Audio Signal Output Balanced output via XLR (pin2 hot), singled ended output via RCA. The Pontus is a true balanced DAC, we recommend using balanced output whenever possible.
- Page 8 8.5kg 5. WARRANTY & SUPPORTS DENAFRIPS Pontus 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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