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Denafrips

DENAFRIPS - Pontus 15th

Desktop R-2R Digital to Analog Converter (DAC)
Sale price₹ 219,999 Regular priceMRP: ₹ 229,999
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Warranty & Services

Don't sweat it, this DENAFRIPS - Pontus 15th comes with a 1 Year warranty from Denafrips that covers manufacturing defects. All products featured on Headphone Zone are backed by an original manufacturer's warranty.

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Unparalleled Digital-To-Analog Conversion For Audiophiles - The DENAFRIPS Pontus 15th

The Denafrips Pontus 15TH redefines audio quality, delivering an incredibly nuanced and layered sound experience. Signal fed to the DAC remain in its native sampling rate without additional processing. This DAC transcends traditional audio perceptions, providing music enthusiasts with an unmatched auditory experience through cutting-edge audio enhancement technologies.

Advanced R-2R Ladder Network Design For Coherent Audio

The Pontus 15TH features a genuine balanced R-2R ladder network array design, with each channel equipped with an independent high-speed CPLD. Utilising four sets of 0.005% R-2R networks, it ensures exceptionally low distortion and background noise, making every note resonate vividly. All digital inputs are FIFO buffered and reclocked by the on-board LPNO crystal oscillators, ensuring minimal reliance on the source equipment's clock quality and providing exceptional jitter suppression.

Innovative Power Supply And Design For Enhanced Performance

The innovative box-in-box design isolates the DAC motherboard from the linear power supply unit, preventing external interference and enhancing audio purity and stability. The dedicated linear power supply unit, encased in a 1.5mm thick metal alloy enclosure, features beefy dual O-Core transformers for digital and analog sections, ultra-low ESR capacitors, and a multi-stage super linear power supply, ensuring precise and low-ripple power supply.

Upgraded Components For Superior Sound Quality

The Pontus 15TH incorporates a low phase noise oscillator, a true balanced R-2R ladder network with hand-picked tight tolerance resistors, and optimised circuit systems. Additionally, it features major upgrades in capacitors, fine-tuned PSU components, and pure silver cables for power transfer. The Long endurance reservoir capacitors stabilise power delivery and the fine tuning of the PSU enhance the AC/DC rectifiers and DC regulators. This meticulous attention to detail transforms consumer-grade audio sources into high-end sound quality, making the Pontus 15TH a standout in the high-end audio market.

Advanced R-2R Ladder Network Design For Coherent Audio

The Pontus 15TH features a genuine balanced R-2R ladder network array design, with each channel equipped with an independent high-speed CPLD. Utilising four sets of 0.005% R-2R networks, it ensures exceptionally low distortion and background noise, making every note resonate vividly. All digital inputs are FIFO buffered and reclocked by the on-board LPNO crystal oscillators, ensuring minimal reliance on the source equipment's clock quality and providing exceptional jitter suppression.

Innovative Power Supply And Design For Enhanced Performance

The innovative box-in-box design isolates the DAC motherboard from the linear power supply unit, preventing external interference and enhancing audio purity and stability. The dedicated linear power supply unit, encased in a 1.5mm thick metal alloy enclosure, features beefy dual O-Core transformers for digital and analog sections, ultra-low ESR capacitors, and a multi-stage super linear power supply, ensuring precise and low-ripple power supply.

Upgraded Components For Superior Sound Quality

The Pontus 15TH incorporates a low phase noise oscillator, a true balanced R-2R ladder network with hand-picked tight tolerance resistors, and optimised circuit systems. Additionally, it features major upgrades in capacitors, fine-tuned PSU components, and pure silver cables for power transfer. The Long endurance reservoir capacitors stabilise power delivery and the fine tuning of the PSU enhance the AC/DC rectifiers and DC regulators. This meticulous attention to detail transforms consumer-grade audio sources into high-end sound quality, making the Pontus 15TH a standout in the high-end audio market.

All You Need To Know About The DENAFRIPS Pontus 15th

Digital Input
Coax 1 via RCA
Coax 2 via BNC 75 Ω
TOSLink x 1
AES EBU x 2
USB2.0 Type B
I²S via HDMI LVDS
Analog Output
RCA at 2.0Vrms, 625 Ω
XLR at 4.0Vrms, 1250 Ω
R-2R DAC
Proprietary R2R + DSD Architecture
True Balanced 26BIT R2R + 6BIT DSD (32 Steps FIR Filters)
Low Thermal Effect, High Precision Hand-Matched 0.005% Resistors
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Encapsulated Ultra Low Noise Power Supply
Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator TCXO
Adaptive FIFO Buffer and Reclocking
DSD1024, PCM1536 Supports On USB & I²S Input
Proprietary USB Audio Solution via STM32F446 Advanced AMR Based MCU
Licensed Thesycon USB Driver For Windows Platform
Driverless On Mac & Linux
Dual AES/EBU Input Supports
Sharp/Slow Filters Option
I²S Pinout Configuration
I²S DSD Channel Swap Configuration
DSD
DSD64 / 2.8224MHz (DoP) on Coax/AES/Opt Input
DSD1024 / 45.1584MHz * On USB & I²S Input Only
PCM
24bits / 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192KHz On All Input
1536kHz* On USB & I²S Input
NOTE* USB Firmware V3.4.1 - PCM1536 / DSD1024 Supports Disabled For Compatibility With MacOS


1 Year Warranty

Don't sweat it, this DENAFRIPS - Pontus 15th comes with a 1 Year warranty from Denafrips that covers manufacturing defects. All products featured on Headphone Zone are backed by an original manufacturer's warranty.

Read more about Denafrips's warranty in India.

Crafting Exquisite Soundscapes for Audiophiles

Denafrips incorporated in the year 2012, focuses on developing high-end audio equipment at a very affordable price. Through the years of intense Research & Development and continuous improvement, Denafrips has finally settled with their product range which is equipped with R-2R ladder DAC technology. The reason behind this direction is that the team at Denafrips strongly believe that the R-2R DAC technology is the best way to reproduce music.Among their line-up of high-quality equipment, Denafrips DACs have gained a massive following for their distinct sound and are adopted by many.

Fun fact:The name, Denafrips, stand for D-ynamic, E-xquisite, N-atural, A-ttractive, F-idelity, R-efined, I-ntoxicating, P-ure, S-ophisticated - This means a lot to the team, and it is the house sound of Denafrips products.

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Generic Name Digital Audio Converter
Importer Details Importers Name: Ferrari Video
Address: 63/18, 1st Main Road, Gandhi Nagar, Chennai - 600020
Contact No: 044-24420733
Net Quantity 1
Manufacturer Details Name: Vinshine Audio PTE. LTD.
Address: 33 Ubi Ave 3 Vertex, Tower A #07-62, Singapore 408868
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sanjay marathe (Pune)
Denafrips - Pontus II DAC Outstanding Legendary Sound

I was very curious about the new trend of R2R DACs and heard a lot about Denafrips. I replaced my Marantz SACD 30N DAC with Denafrips -Pontus II - 12th Anniversary DAC and I couldn't believe my ears as if a miracle happened . It was a sound from a different world. Very musical , analog sounding , smooth yet detailed sound. The soundstage expanded unbelievably in all directions .. it is a 3 dimensional soundfield. The vocals sounded so natural .. to die for. No trace of harshness , distortion or digital glare ..The bass is punchy , very deep and nuanced , layered and textured . The instrument separation is fabulous and I could hear details never heard before . The treble is great without being aggressive. There is just no comparison with all the chip based DACs. This is an end-game DAC for me. It simply breathed a new life into my Hegel H390 amp and Dynaudio Contour 30 combination . Just go for this DAC .. you will never regret . Thanks HPZ for a prompt delivery . Vinshine from Singapore also provides good support for the product. 7 (******* ) stars.. I can only imagine how the top end DAC Terminator II plus from Denafrips would sound.

Hey there, thank you for the great review and ratings! So delighted that you are loving your purchase. Hope you had a comfortable shopping experience. Cheers!

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Pugazhendi Palani (Thiruvananthapuram)
Denafrips Pontus II 12th-1 : Simply Superb!

Frankly, I have been reading about DAC magic a lot without giving in. Recently, I bought Denafrips Aries II 12th edition just out of curiosity and tried it with my reasonably good hifi set up. I was shocked to realise what I have been missing so long. The DAC brought life into my music. Then my curiosity overtook my prudence and I adventured into Denafrips Pontus II 12th-1. Oh My God! This DAC just blew me away with its refinement over Aries II 12th. Music was like re-born. So much space, meat on the bones. Like singers sitting in your room and orchestral instruments arranged around you. It is so life like. Stunning and simply superb! Yet to get the full juice out of it since it is still burning in....

Hey there, thank you for the great review and ratings! So delighted that you are loving your purchase. Hope you had a comfortable shopping experience. Cheers!

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Shuvabrata Das (Kolkata)
Hits the Bulls-eye!!

Firstly, full marks to HPZ for prompt delivery. Ordered on Thursday night and got it on Saturday 1:30PM!!! Wow!

As for the DAC, I upgraded from the Ares2. It takes all the attributes of the Ares and bumps it up by a huge margin. Bigger soundstage, depth, everything. Sounds fuller and more rounded. Bass and mids are sublime.

Thanks to the HPZ team for making the Denafrips line available here in India.

This makes us really happy and we really appreciate the genuine feedback! We're glad that you have such positive thoughts about our team and the company.

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Prateek Dubey (Delhi)
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Rendezvous with expectations

This is my second DAC. I’ll not reveal the one I already have, but it’s a good DAC boasting almost perfect measurements. I bought the Pontus after having gone through many positive reviews about it. I received the product well in time-as promised by HFzone and it was very well packed. I’m middle aged, so somewhat old school. Quality and attention to detail is of great importance to me. I must say this thing is bulletproof. Solid aluminium chassis. Each component sits precise, touch and feel are top class. Sound quality, well there’s better prose out there describing it, so I’ll just say that the Pontus lays music on a dark velvet landscape. Vocals move closer to you and instruments give each other space to breathe. Not that my previous DAC is a slouch in any manner. It has a tighter bass than the Pontus, but the extra decay in bass gives Pontus more musicality. More furry warmth. Special thanks to Headphone Zone for sharing a variety of audiophile playlists and arranging the product in the promised timeframe.

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Hey Prateek, Thank you so much for the positive feedback! It means a lot to us. We are so happy to hear that you are loving our products and services.

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Justin Mascreen (Pune)
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