Denafrips Iris

I added an Iris to my Musician Pegasus (related to Pontus II) using i2S and was a significant upgrade, and many here have added an Iris to their Pontus and got similar results so I’d expect a nice improvement with the Enyo as well.  I’d recommend picking up a used Iris if you can get one around $400 and give it a try, and if it doesn’t work out you can easily sell it for little/no loss — that’s what I did and happily kept the Iris.  BTW, I started with a $6 6” HDMI cable from Monoprice just for the purpose of trying a DDC and was still easily able to hear the improvements so you needn’t drop $$$ on an i2S cable initially just to try (should be as short as possible as i2S degrades rapidly with cable length so try to keep it as close to 1 foot as possible).  My take is I would’ve had to spend a helluva lot more than $400 on a new DAC to get the level of improvement I got with the Iris.  Just my $0.02 FWIW and hope it helps. 

Many thanks!

 @gcknapp  Doesn’t make sense to me when you have  $99 USB streamer source that you would buy an IRIS USB reclocker.. I made that mistake with an Auralic Aries Mini and all I got was increased awareness of the limitations of the USB  HW feeding the IRIS. A better path is spending money on a higher quality streaming endpoint HW facing your DAC like an UltraRendu or Holo Red, both support UPNP so you can stream from a NAS to them using a UPNP controller like JPlay on your phone/tablet. IME 80% of the SQ is determined by the HW quality of the streamer endpoint facing your DAC and 20% by the server software providing the file handling.

Thanks David.  Do you personally recommend the Sonore?