Denafrips Hermes 12th
The Hermes 12Th USB digital-to-digital converter or digital interface (DDC) from Denafrips is the result of 3 years of research and development by the brand, which benefits from its extensive expertise in the design of DACs and related technologies.
This interface will allow you to extend the digital connectivity of your audio system or computer, while improving sound quality. What's more, the Hermes works perfectly with a wide range of DAC brands and models on the market. The data stream of the incoming USB digital signal is stored by the FIFO buffer and then reclocked using the built-in femtosecond clock. This procedure considerably minimises jitter, guaranteeing a signal free of digital noise. Furthermore, the Hermes 12th benefits from galvanic isolation, protecting the signal from electrical interference and maintaining signal integrity throughout the conversion process.
The power supply stage of the Hermes 12Th has also been optimised to provide all the circuits with a clean, stable electrical signal. These include a large 80VA UP-OCC copper O-Core transformer and precision LDO voltage regulators.
Key features:
- Proprietary FPGA DSP processing architecture
- FIFO buffer and reclocking with integrated clock
- OCXO oscillator
- Optical isolation of all input interference
- Proprietary USB interface via STM32F446 microcontroller based on AMR technology
- Pilote USB Thesycon
- External clocks supported
- UP-OCC 80VA O-Core copper transformer
| Product type | Digital interface (DDC) |
| Inputs | 1x USB-B 1x AES/EBU 1x Optical Toslink 1x Coaxial External clock inputs 45.1548MHz / 49.152MHz |
| Outputs | 1x Coaxial 1x Optical Toslink 2x AES/EBU 1x I2S HDMI LVDS 1x I2S RJ45 LVCMOS |
| Supported sampling rates | USB : PCM up to 768kHz, DSD up to DSD512 I2S : PCM up to 384kHz, DSD up to DSD512 Optical / Coaxial / AES : PCM jusqu'à 24bit 192kHz, DSD DoP jusqu'au DSD64 |
| Supply voltage | 100-240V AC 50/60Hz |
| Consumption | ≤ 20W |
| Color | Black |
| Dimensions | 330x240x50mm |
| Weight | 4.5kg |
| Package | 1x Denafrips Hermes 12TH |