30-Apr-2015, 22:28
(This post was last modified: 30-Apr-2015, 22:29 by Rufus McDufus.)
Ah, that's interesting. So it may not be SAM mk 2 then.
I have to admit I turn off a bit when people say one firmware sounds better than another because of the years with Linn DS players where people could hear minute changes in firmwares (and some did indeed sound different) that just differed in minor ways, and not in ways that had deliberate sound quality changes. It seemed as if it was down to the compilation of the firmware binaries, and Linn couldn't possibly control how it sounded merely from the way it was built. I had a feeling this would be more of the same, but it isn't. There are definite sound quality changes in this firmware.
(I've since realised that any change, even one not containing sound quality changes, could actually change the way things sound, but I can't necessarily hear it!)
I have to admit I turn off a bit when people say one firmware sounds better than another because of the years with Linn DS players where people could hear minute changes in firmwares (and some did indeed sound different) that just differed in minor ways, and not in ways that had deliberate sound quality changes. It seemed as if it was down to the compilation of the firmware binaries, and Linn couldn't possibly control how it sounded merely from the way it was built. I had a feeling this would be more of the same, but it isn't. There are definite sound quality changes in this firmware.
(I've since realised that any change, even one not containing sound quality changes, could actually change the way things sound, but I can't necessarily hear it!)
