Teardown: TERMINATOR II R-2R DAC

Interested to see what's under the hood of the DENAFRIPS Terminator II DAC? Here you go the complete teardown video! Improvements of the Terminator II over the older Terminator:

• Total segregation of Digital Signal Processing and R-2R Network Arrays (Analog) boards

• Oven-Controlled Crystal Oscillators OCXO replace the TCXO clocks.

• High-speed Digital Isolation. The silicon-dioxide (SiO2 ) isolation barrier with isolated power supply effective isolate the ground and block the noise from one end to the other

• Redesigned Power Supply Unit (encapsulated underneath the DAC board)

• Supercapacitors for Digital & Analogue circuitry for high energy storage to ensure supply of constant cleaned DC power to the circuitry

• Clock Out eco-system to sync with DENAFRIPS DDC

Did DENAFRIPS over-engineered the highly sought-after Terminator II/Plus DAC? For you to find out :) Happy reading watching!

DENAFRIPS TERMINATOR II R-2R DAC / DENAFRIPS DDC ECO-System Block

Complete Teardown Video

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