Denafrips Ares 15th
To celebrate its 15 years of expertise, Denafrips presents the Ares 15TH, a high-performance, balanced NOS R2R DAC. The digital/analog conversion stage is made up of no fewer than 480 carefully selected precision resistors, and is combined with an Altera FPGA. The power supply stage of the Ares 15TH is no exception, featuring a large 60VA O-core transformer with UP-OCC copper windings, eight LDO regulators and numerous high-performance capacitors. This ensemble enables the Denafrips Ares 15TH to deliver sound reproduction of incredible precision, clarity and richness.
Key features:
Proprietary DSD + R2R architectureTrue balanced 24bit R2R + 6bit DSD circuits (32-step FIR filters)
Low thermal effect, hand-matched 0.01% high-precision resistors
Femtosecond oscillators 45.1548MHz and 49.152MHz
| Product type | Balanced NOS R2R DAC |
| Inputs | 1x USB-B 1x I2S via HDMI 1x Coaxial 1x Optical Toslink |
| Outputs | 1x Balanced stereo XLR 1x Single-ended stereo RCA |
| Supported sampling rates | USB : PCM up to 1536kHz, DSD up to DSD1024 I2S / Optical / Coaxial : PCM up to 24bit 192kHz, DSD DoP up to DSD64 |
| Output level / impedance | RCA : 2Vrms @ 625Ω XLR : 4Vrms @ 1250Ω |
| Sampling modes | Non-oversampling (NOS) Oversampling (OS) |
| Filters | Slow Sharp |
| Frequency response | 20Hz - 70kHz -3dB |
| THD+N | 0.004% |
| SNR | 115dB |
| Dynamic range | > 119dB |
| Crosstalk | -124dB |
| Supply voltage | 100-240VAC 50/60Hz |
| Consumption | ≤ 20W |
| Color | Black |
| Dimensions | 215 x 230 x 45mm |
| Weight | 3.5kg |
| Package | 1x Denafrips Ares 15TH 1x Power supply cable |