Denafrips Ares. Anyone have one and care to talk abou it?


Was flipping through some potential DACs primarily for CD, FLAC, and Tidal Hifi (no MQA for me, yet).  Happened upon this Ares.  Curious whether anyone has one and would care to share thoughts on it or whether anyone has compared it to one of the Schiit MBs.

Thanks!
stfoth

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There are a couple of brands that appear to be more Euro-centric but are supposed to make excellent R2R DACs for PCM encoded content. Soekris is another one. Lots of chatter on other (Euro) forums about both. Look at Soekris dac1421 as well. I haven't heard any of their gear but I'd give a bit more edge to Soekris mainly because they also make computer network LAN gear so I expect their products to be more refined and better made.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm particularly curious about your thoughts on how it compares with the Bluesound Node 2. It looks like it only took a week to arrive which is surprisingly quick.