DENAFRIPS Digital audio interface DDC HERMES 15th silver DF-HERMES15-SILVER

The DENAFRIPS HERMES 15th is a silver digital-to-digital converter (DDC) designed to process digital audio signals with precision. It uses an FPGA DSP architecture also found in the Gaia models.

Its CNC-machined, anodised aluminium enclosure provides vibration damping and electromagnetic shielding. A FIFO buffer, dual OCXO clocks and galvanic isolation help minimise jitter, with support for PCM 768kHz and DSD512. Power is supplied by a UP-OCC copper O-core transformer and eight low-noise LDO regulators. Inputs include USB, coaxial, optical and AES, while the outputs are coaxial, optical, AES and HDMI I2S. The unit weighs 6500 g.