DENAFRIPS ARES 12TH DAC Owner's Manual

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4th Jan 2022

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Page 2: Table Of Contents
DAC ARCHITECTURE ....................6 OPERATING INSTRUCTION ....................7 Quick Start Guide ..................... 7 USB DRIVER INSTALLATION – WINDOWS OS ............12 SPECIFICATIONS ......................16 WARRANTY ........................17 © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 3: Installation & Safety Instructions
• The electronics in modern hi-fi equipment is complex and may, therefore, be adversely affected or damaged by lightning. For protection of the audio system during electrical storms, disconnect the mains plugs. © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 4: Introduction
2. INTRODUCTION Thank you for purchasing the DENAFRIPS ARES 12TH DAC. The ARES 12TH DAC is built with a sole objective in mind - to reproduce digital music to analogue-like sound for today’s audiophile. The use of advanced hardware design, powerful digital processing technology, combined with the know-how of recording and reproduction experiences, ARES 12TH DAC achieved the digital music playback goals - musical expression.
Page 5: Design Highlights
3. DESIGN HIGHLIGHTS 3.1 ADAPTIVE FIFO BUFFER RECLOCKING The DENAFRIPS approach to address the jitters issue by FIFO BUFFER RECLOCKING. The adaptive FIFO buffer store the source digital audio data in the memory. These data are read from the memory using the low phase noise, precision FEMTO Clock, located right in the DAC.
Page 6: Proprietary R-2R And Dsd Decoding Architecture
PCM format can be perfectly decoded, at the same time, the DSD format can be perfectly decoded as well. It is rare in the currently market that a R-2R DAC can hardware decode both the PCM and DSD formats. © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 7: Dac Architecture
R-2R ladder network arrays. The linearity of the conversion is guaranteed by the high-precision thin film resistors, with low thermal effect temperature coefficient of the low 10/15ppm. © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 8: Operating Instruction
Press the button to select OPTICAL as current input source. The respective LED shall be on. (6) Input Selection: I²S Press the button to select I²S as current input source. The respective LED shall be on. © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 10 3. Toggle the I²S button momentarily, 1X 2X 4X will turn on/off in a fixed pattern to denote binary 000-111 4. Wait for 5s 5. DAC back in operational mode Video Guide: https://www.denafrips.com/config-ARES 12TH © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 11 DATA- BCK+ BCK- LRCK+ LRCK- DATA- DATA+ BCK- BCK+ LRCK+ LRCK- DATA+ DATA- BCK- BCK+ LRCK+ LRCK- Table 1. I2S PINOUT CONFIGURATION Figure 1. HDMI i2s Input © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 12 It is not recommended to use both RCA and XLR output simultaneously. NOTE: The ARES 12TH II chassis is connected to the power supply earth. © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 13: Usb Driver Installation - Windows Os
• Double click the “DENAFRIPS_UsbAudio_v4.82.0” (or the latest version) to install the USB driver. • Follow the on-screen instruction to complete the installation Figure 2. Welcome screen © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 15 • Power on the DAC. Select USB input • The USB DAC shall be detected. The driver status can be monitored as follows Figure 6. Taskbar & Control Panel © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 16 • Select DENAFRIPS USB DAC as default Windows OS Soundcard Press Set Default button Properties of the DENAFRIPS USB DAC Direct-Sound default format ASIO Buffer Size Playback software recommendation: • roon • JRiver • Foobar2000 • Sonicstudio Amarra © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE)
Page 17: Specifications
Supported Format (PCM) 44.1 – 1536 kHz USB Only S/N Ratio 115dB(RCA), 114dB(XLR) Dynamic Range >119dB(RCA), >120dB(XLR) Stereo Crosstalk ≤-124dB(RCA), ≤130dB(XLR) Dimension 215 *230 *45 mm Weight 3.5kg © DENAFRIPS CO. LTD. & VINSHINE AUDIO PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...
Page 18: Warranty
6. WARRANTY DENAFRIPS ARES 12TH purchased from the Authorized Distributor comes with 36 months of warranty from the date of purchase / delivery (whichever later). Defective Warranty Policy Within First 30 Days DENAFRIPS to bear both way shipping fee. Within 1st Year Customer to bear one-way shipping fee.

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