New review
Pretty good, kind of disapointed about the NOS stuff, as I see it, itās just a firmware problem, if we suppose there is nothing wrong with the hardware, the same with the impulse response of the slow filter
The latency problem should get better lowering the ASIO buffer size?
Out of curiosity, what amps are people pairing with their Ares 2s?
Trying to gauge whether it could be due to the amp as to whether someone prefers OS over NOS for example.
What does it do with real NOS? will sound better?
I sometimes wonder what people expect oversampling to change, especially when oversampling is somewhat essentiall (depending on DAC type) to get an accurate reproduction of the signal.
Video explaining a bit of the technical background:
Yeah kinda sad tooā¦ It was really one of the reasons I was looking into it.
But having heard itā¦ It soudns so f*cking good I might not care they lie about/have problems with NOS.
I always thought sounds good is all that matter regardless of how they build and how it implemented. Hehe
Hmmmmmm yeah, sureā¦ But if you sell something and you call it āNOSā it should be NOSā¦ Thatās my point more. Likeā¦ Sure a Ferrari drives well but if I bought a Lambo and paid for a lambo I want a motherf*cking Lambo 
hahahaā¦good point. Well already bought it, used it, like it, enjoying it. Nothing to care now. Already in the hole. Damnā¦haha
did anyone test if using both outputs of the ares at the same time degrades the sound in a meaningfull way or is it more of a best practise cause of the output stage design ?
Just asking cause i like to use XLR and RCA at the same time but im not shure i want to import a bf2 to germay and wait a few months cause of the schiity supply situation
Does it say something about direct R-2R ladder to output?
Would also be nice to get some photos of this area:
I have actually found my Dac with the Singxer Sda 2 and Su2 pairing.
But you donāt make it easy for me to keep looking here and discover something new.
If something new is needed then it would be the Ares 2.
What I was wondering is, how useful would it be to feed the Su 2 to the Ares 2 via coax?
Thatās actually the main reason why Iām hesitant in the first place 
hm conventional wisdom would suggest that it should help whit jitter and help with the noise floor if you feed it from a pc, like golden did presend it in one of his vids.
but hey ask someone that can hear those fine details instead of me XD
I use both though, still sound brilliant, i cant differentiate the 2 method.
thx did hope its not like day and night 
now i just have to sell some unused gear and roll the dice what r2r dac to get 
Thereās a link somewhere up the thread to Denafrips stating it may degrade the sound. But itās fine to use a rca splitter cable. The rca and xlr outputs seem to be directly tied together.
Not because it changes or not, it is because they sell it as a DAC with an non oversampling mode
I had a long chat with a very nice guy at Vinshine Audio (Alvin) and he did not recommend a RCA splitter, he send me a diagram to make an XLR to dual stereo RCA that is supposedly a good solution to connect two amps
There are no commercially available cables like this (at least I did not find one) so you will have to make your own, but it doesnāt look very difficult
Should not be necessary, the Ares II already buffers and reclocks all digital inputs to eliminate jitter and in the ASR review you can see that the jitter elimination is pretty efective
Well thatās interesting. Iāve never seen anyone suggest breaking out xlr outputs like that. I think most people donāt like the idea of having reverse polarity going to one of the ampsāwhich is probably why they donāt really exist.
Do you plan to make a set?
Probably, donāt like the idea of switching cables around everytime I want to use my headphones
I donāt care that much for XLR as the cable will be very short ā¦
