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INSTALLATION AND SETUP 

The Ares is easy to use. Nonetheless, DENAFRIPS advice to read this section to fully 
understand the functions and features available.  

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Ares Front Panel 

Description: 

(1)

 

Standby Button 

Press the button once to switch on the DAC, vice versa, press once to switch the DAC into 
standby mode. 

(2)

 

Standby LED 

The Standby LED shall be on when the DAC is in Standby Mode. The LED shall be dimmed 
when the DAC is in Operating Mode. 

(3)

 

Input Selection: USB 

Press the button to select USB as current input source. The respective LED shall be on.  

(4)

 

Input Selection: COAXIAL 1 

Press the button to select COAXIAL 1 as current input source. The respective LED shall be on.  

(5)

 

Input Selection: COAXIAL 2 

Press the button to select COAXIAL 2 as current input source. The respective LED shall be on.  

(6)

 

Input Selection: OPTICAL 1 

Press the button to select OPTICAL 1 as current input source. The respective LED shall be on.  

(7)

 

Input Selection: OPTICAL 2 

Press the button to select OPTICAL 2 as current input source. The respective LED shall be on.  

(8)

 

Phase Button 

Press the button to toggle Phase Output. Phase LED On: Negative Phase, Phase LED Off: 
Positive Phase 

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Mute Button 

Press the button to enable/disable Mute. When mute, the Mute LED will be blinking 1s in 
interval. 

Summary of Contents for Ares

Page 1: ...re usually not as good as the mainstream integrated DAC chip but the sound of R 2R DAC is often filled with emotion comfort high fidelity transparency and additive musicality that most of the common mainstream integrated DAC chip cannot match To achieve a decent sounding R 2R DAC the use of ultra precise resistors is necessary The cost of high precision resistors is expensive each resistor must be...

Page 2: ...ng rate of the R 2R DAC for decoding Although the R 2R DAC can decode almost all the sampling rate of the audio signals but in fact the actual R 2R architecture and circuitry design decided the best sampling rate to sound best that it shall decode The use of up sampling processing converts all digital audio input signal to the predefined sampling rate so to ensure all kind of audio format can be d...

Page 3: ...select USB as current input source The respective LED shall be on 4 Input Selection COAXIAL 1 Press the button to select COAXIAL 1 as current input source The respective LED shall be on 5 Input Selection COAXIAL 2 Press the button to select COAXIAL 2 as current input source The respective LED shall be on 6 Input Selection OPTICAL 1 Press the button to select OPTICAL 1 as current input source The r...

Page 4: ...e 1 Sampling Rate 11 12 12 Figure 2 Ares Rear Panel Description 11 AC Power Supply CAUTION Select the correct AC Power Supply voltage prior supplying the power to the Ares The voltage selector switch is located underneath the Ares chassis 12 Digital Audio Signal Input There are 5 inputs namely USB COAX 1 COAX 2 OPT1 and OPT2 13 Analog Audio Signal Output Balanced output via XLR pin2 hot singled en...

Page 5: ...D4X USB Only Supported Format PCM 24bit 44 1 48 88 2 96 176 4 192 352 8 USB 384 USB kHz 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 5 WARRANTY SUPPORTS DENAFRIPS Ares comes with 36 months of warranty from the date of purchase delivery whichever later Customers shall bear the two way shipping cost for RMA ...

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