DENAFRIPS Ares User Manual (English)

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1. INTRODUCTION

Thank you for choosing DENAFRIPS products! The Ares DAC is a 20Bit/384KHz discrete

resistor ladder Digital To Analog Converter, also known as R-2R DAC.

The Ares is built to reproduce digital music in this modern era. The use of advanced

hardware design, powerful digital processing technology, combined with the recording

technology, digital music playback technology experience, to achieve the perfect music

playback goals and accurate music expression.

The architecture uses the most primitive R-2R DAC technology, it is probably the most

suitable architecture to reproduce music. Despite the test results of various measurements

and parameters of the conventional R-2R DAC are usually not as good as the mainstream

integrated DAC chip, but the sound of R-2R DAC, is often filled with emotion, comfort, high

fidelity, transparency, and additive musicality that most of the common mainstream

integrated DAC chip cannot match.

To achieve a decent sounding R-2R DAC, the use of ultra-precise resistors is necessary. The

cost of high precision resistors is expensive, each resistor must be stringently measured and

matched by machine with human intervention to cross-check. These results in a very high

cost in the manufacturing process, hence, R-2R DAC is also a symbol of high-end DAC.

The Ares employs true balance R-2R DAC design. Each channel is decoded by 4 sets of 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.

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DENAFRIPS Ares Specifications

General

Weight	3.5 Kg
Architecture	R2R (Resistor Ladder)
Inputs	USB, Coax, Optical
Supported Sample Rates	Up to 192kHz (Coaxial/Optical)
Bit Depth	Up to 32-bit
Digital Input	Coaxial, Optical, USB
Outputs	RCA (Single-ended), XLR (Balanced)
Analog Output	RCA (Single-ended), XLR (Balanced)