Please click on the “Where To Buy, PIC”.
Ah, OK.
Then it looks like the online shop is just for bulk cable?
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If you come across a direct order for the HDMI, perhaps you can post. There are many USB options like Curious Cable. I used Cullencables for my power cables.
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@Tushar_das, I don’t think you don’t need anything so fancy. Any AudioQuest (or whatever) cable will probably work.
The problem with what you wanted to use was that it was fiber based.
If you have one hanging around, just try a regular HDMI cable (as a test).
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I placed an order for Audioquest from Amazon yesterday… 
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I couldn’t figure the Sommer website, I called or emailed them I forget which and they directed me to a local retainer that ordered the cables.
Which model of AudioQuest? A customer recently got Vodka on sale.
I got the Audioquest Carbon.
In case you have not cancelled the order of the fiber HDMI and plan to open it anyway without affecting the possibility of returning it, I’d like a confirmation that it doesn’t work as three of us said, if possible. Thanks
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All this talk of DDC’s has made me wonder… I have just installed the Ares II in my system and at the moment my source is an Allo DigiOne via coax SPDIF. Would there be any advantage do you think in instead of using the DigiOne board to convert to SPDIF to use something like the Iris DDC direct from Pi USB? Obviously I’ll still be going into the Ares with SPDIF.
I have the Audioquest Carbon.
Using slow on my T+
Thank you. How would you characterized Slow vs. no filter?
I received the FIber HDMI yesterday. The GAIA will be dispatched Wed/Thu this week. I should receive it around the 15th, I will immediately update this thread.
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Hello guys,
We’ve published the basic setup guides for PC/Mac computer audiophiles who use DENAFRIPS DAC via the USB input, feel free to check it out:
I may be, but it is difficult to imagine, that I was the only one struck by a “discussion” of the need for a music streamer today on YouTube.
The question was purported posed by someone who has a Denafrips DAC. The “discussant” then says “Denafrips? What is that?” and then suggests that the name is “made up.”
He adds (accurately) that he needs to be conversant with the equipment (before?) making such a comment. Perhaps someone will send him the URL to Vinshine.
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Just taken delivery of an Ares II and very excited!
Plan is to connect it via my Auralic Aries Mini via Toslink - anyone have a similar set up and can advise of settings I should be “playing with”?
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leave it on 24/7 is the best thing you can do
I did listen to mine as I plugged it in just to see if anything was actually coming out of it - but then I left it on and playing with the amp volume right down. I wasn’t impressed out of the box, but it certainly was different enough to grab my attention. After 24 hours playing I very impressed, then after 48 hours of silence I listened again and I didn’t like it (but my warm up playlist is all local files of all sorts - and it might have been a crappy track!). So down went the volume and I didn’t bother to listen then till about 80 hours or so… and then I was hooked - I was late to bed that night! I don’t think it changed much after 100 hours or so, but some folk say it does - I reckon it’s more likely our ears that change day to day to be fair! 
Incidentally I used to have some DSP on in Roon to cure brightness in my system, some tracks sounded awful with the RME DAC I had before - but I removed that EQ before installing the Ares II. Finding these sorts of recordings and playing them with the Ares II and they still sound awful, more interesting but still awful! 
So I measured my room again and it measured exactly the same so I reinstalled the DSP. I was worried about putting the EQ back in case it spoilt the Denafrips magic, but no, the ‘real sounding’ signature of the DAC is still there - all I did was tone down a few frequencies at certain volumes to get a flatter curve.
After a few weeks I tried USB (I had been on coax SPDIF from the Allo DigiOne) and I got back the sound signature of every other delta sigma DAC I had ever had, digital, massive detail, but no real instruments! Maybe the Pi, but I went straight back to SPDIF.
I’m listening now to Kronos Quartet and Trio Da Kali on their Ladilikan album from Qobuz and I’ve listened to this a few times - but with the Ares II there’s just something else going on, you can hear the strings reverberating into the body of the instrument, and what I previously just heard as a slight noise in the background, can now be heard as breath blown across a pipe of some sort… loving it!
A rather glowing Terminator plus review from HBP on YT
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