Denafrips - Terminator II

The Denafrips Terminator II is developed from the technologies found in the flagship device of the company. The device uses state of the art fourth generation discrete resistor 26 Bit R-2R for PCM decoding, 6Bit DSD hardware decoding with 32 steps FIR filters. This is a total breakthrough of the traditional integrated chip constraints. The result of this architecture is superior sound signal and seamless decoding capability.

Denafrips Terminator II’s core conversion module, R-2R is constructed with 0.005% high precision, 10ppm low thermal effect precision resistors. Each channel uses more than 500pcs of these precision resistors, or 1000pcs for two channels, 4 times more than the other typical R-2R DAC. These achieve a truly astonishing low distortion, full balanced design. Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillators OCXO clocks are used with FIFO buffer and reclocking - to eliminate the word-clock jitter from the sources.

The Denafrips Terminator II houses a dedicated encapsulated beefy linear power supply unit, designed in a thick metal alloy enclosure which can be found underneath the DAC board with an additional steel plate divider between them for extra shielding. The box-within-box design eliminates the inherited problems of dual box solutions. Beefy dual O-Core Transformers for Digital and Analog sections, Ultra-Low ESR, Long Endurance Reservoir Capacitors, and multi-stages super linear power supply, ensuring ultra precision, low ripple power supply charging up DAC.

With the design architecture implemented in the Denafrips Terminator II, the sound reproduction is of reference grade and transparent without any coloration.