Denafrips Pontus 15th
The Denafrips Pontus 15th NOS R2R balanced dual-mono DAC represents an excellent high-end digital-to-analog conversion solution, offering ececption sound performance. Here, each channel is equipped with an independent high-speed FPGA to facilitate digital signal decoding by means of 4 sets of high-precision R-2R networks. The choice of such a design results in very low linearity error, high decoding speed and low digital noise, not only to ensure that the audio signal has very low distortion, but also to ensure very low background noise.
All digital inputs are buffered in FIFO memory and reclocked by integrated femtosecond oscillators. Excellent jitter rejection makes the Denafrips Pontus 15th much less dependent on the quality of the source equipment's clock.
Features:
- Proprietary R2R + DSD architecture
- True balanced 24bit R2R + 6bit DSD (32-step FIR filters)
- Precision resistors (0.005%)
- Femtosecond clocks 45.1548MHz, 49.152MHz
- Ultra-low-noise isolated power supply
- Support for PCM streams up to 1536kHz and DSD up to DSD1024 (USB and I2S)
- Proprietary USB interface via STM32F446 MCU
- Thesycon USB driver
- Dual AES/EBU input
- I2S pinout configuration
- Sharp / Slow filters
- I2S DSD channel configuration
- Power supply circuit in silver
| Product type | Balanced NOS R2R DAC |
| Inputs | 1x USB-B 1x I2S via HDMI 1x Optical Toslink 2x AES/EBU 1x Coaxial BNC 1x Coaxial RCA |
| Outputs | 1x Balanced stereo XLR 1x Single-ended stereo RCA |
| Supported sampling rates | USB / I2S : PCM up to 24bit 1536kHz, DSD up to DSD1024 Optical / Coaxial / AES : PCM up to 24bit 192kHz, DSD DoP64 |
| Output level / impedance | 2Vrms @ 625 Ohm 4Vrms @ 1250 Ohm |
| Sampling modes | Non-oversampling (NOS) Oversampling (OS) |
| Frequency response | 20Hz - 70kHz (-3dB) |
| THD+N | 0.0025% |
| SNR | 120dB |
| Dynamic range | > 121dB |
| Crosstalk | -110dB |
| Supply voltage | 100-240VAC 50/60Hz |
| Consumption | <= 20W |
| Color | Black / Silver |
| Dimensions | 320 x 330 x 80mm |
| Weight | 12.5kg |
| Package | 1x Denafrips Pontus 15th |