New beta firmware 7.1.3 released

[Confused]

I've manage to spend much time this weekend listening to 7.1.3beta. Now a few people have reported hearing improvements with bass, and for me it does sound better defined with more impact, tighter, just generally better. Now a while ago I posted some observations regards to some individual tracks that were a little problematic with SAM, exhibiting strange low frequency grunge, bass artifices etc., with a theory that large floor standers with SAM could possibly generate more very low bass than would even be apparent on the recording studio monitors. One thing I did was whenever I found one of these tracks, was stick them in a playlist, with the idea being that they could be used as a reference when experimenting with speaker placement. This proved to be useful, but not 100% successful because the optimum speaker placement to calm the negative effects of these specific tracks, was clearly not the best positioning for most of the rest of what I wanted to listen to. Anyway, yesterday I was thinking about this and tried replaying my playlist of problematic tracks with 7.1.3beta in place. The result was interesting, about 75% of them were perfectly listenable, with maybe 50% simply sounding fine and issue free, so much so that if 7.1.3 was in place at the initial listen the track would never had made into the problematic playlist anyway. For me this offers some evidence of why some folk find 7.1.3 better, and not really in anyway too subjective.