DENAFRIPS TERMINATOR-PLUS Owner's Manual

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OWNER'S MANUAL

V1.31

10th June 2021

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Page 2: Table Of Contents
DAC ARCHITECTURE ....................6 OPERATING INSTRUCTION ....................7 Quick Start Guide ......................7 USB DRIVER INSTALLATION – WINDOWS OS ............14 SPECIFICATIONS ........................ 18 WARRANTY ........................19 © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 3: Installation & Safety Instructions
 The electronics in modern hi-fi equipment is complex and may, therefore, be adversely affected or damaged by lightning. For protection of the audio system during electrical storms, disconnect the mains plugs. © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 4: Introduction
The TERMINATOR-PLUS DAC is built upon the success of the TERMINATOR DAC. DENAFRIPS push the boundaries further in all aspects, to reach the new heights. The top-quality performance of the TERMINATOR-PLUS DAC is for the serious audiophile who seek the very last bit of ultimate-refinement.
Page 5: Design Highlights
3.4 I2S INPUT TERMINATOR-PLUS comes with three (3) types of I2S input. Despite the I2S input has no industrial standard, it is probably the best digital input interface to-date. NOTE: DENAFRIPS cannot guarantee the compatibility with other I2S devices.
Page 6: Proprietary, State-Of-The-Art Usb Interface
PCM1411.2 or PCM1536. There is no up-sampling of DSD audio signal. 3.8 PROPRIETARY R-2R AND DSD DECODING ARCHITECTURE The TERMINATOR-PLUS 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 7: Dac Architecture
R-2R ladder network arrays. The linearity of the conversion is guaranteed by the high-precision thin film resistors, with low thermal effect temperature coefficient of the low 10/15ppm. © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 8: Operating Instruction
Press the button to toggle between OS/NOS model. The LED lit to indicate the DAC is in NOS mode. d. MUTE Press the button to enable/disable Mute. When mute, the Input Signal LED will be blinking from Left to Right. © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 10 3. Press the NOS button momentarily  COAX On = DSD Channel Swap  AES1 On = Normal 4. Wait for 10s 5. DAC back in operational mode © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 11 DATA- BCK+ BCK- LRCK+ LRCK- DATA- DATA+ BCK- BCK+ LRCK+ LRCK- DATA+ DATA- BCK- BCK+ LRCK+ LRCK- Table 2. I2S PINOUT CONFIGURATION Figure 2. HDMI i2s Input © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 12 Please use a good quality power cord with earth/ground pin connected (2) Analog Audio Signal Output Balanced output via XLR (pin2 hot), singled ended output via RCA. The TERMINATOR-PLUS 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 13 (4) CLOCK OUT The TERMINATOR-PLUS supports the following clock frequencies output, leveraging the high-quality internal OCXO, you may sync the audio equipment clocks to improve the sonic performance. MASTER CLOCK  45.1584MHz, 49.152Mhz  22.5792Mhz, 24.576Mhz WORD CLOCK  44.1KHz, 48KHz CLOCK-OUT Configuration 1.
Page 15: Usb Driver Installation - Windows Os
 Double click the “DENAFRIPS_UsbAudio_v4.82.0” (or the latest version) to install the USB driver.  Follow the on-screen instruction to complete the installation Figure 4. Welcome screen © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 17  Power on the DAC. Select USB input  The USB DAC shall be detected. The driver status can be monitored as follows Figure 8. Taskbar & Control Panel © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 18  Select DENAFRIPS USB DAC as default Windows OS Soundcard Press Set Default button Properties of the DENAFRIPS USB DAC Direct-Sound default format ASIO Buffer Size Playback software recommendation:  roon  JRiver  Foobar2000  Sonicstudio Amarra © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE)
Page 19: Specifications
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 122dB(RCA), 127dB(XLR) Dynamic Range >132dB Stereo Crosstalk -110dB Dimension 430*380*105 mm Weight 19.0kg © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 20: Warranty
6. WARRANTY DENAFRIPS TERMINATOR-PLUS purchased from the Authorized Distributor comes with 36 months of warranty from the date of purchase / delivery (whichever later). Defective Warranty Policy Within First 30 Days DENAFRIPS to bear both way shipping fee. Within 1st Year Customer to bear one-way shipping fee.

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