31-May-2015, 15:24
(31-May-2015, 15:03)NickB Wrote: Who said they have made any changes to the sound?
I am quite enjoying watching all the posts about which sounds best and waiting for an announcement that all the changes are as I suspect functional only !!!!!
I'm sure you'll ridicule this (and I don't care) but functional changes wouldn't rule out any unintended changes in SQ. A manufacturer like PS Audio for example is very aware of this and test their DAC firmware updates on this aspect as well.
Anyway, I'm perfectly happy with the SQ of 8.0, running it now with DPM and ICM off, no SAM, USB only. Didn't feel the desire to experiment with DPM on/off yet. Since manually disabling DPM and ICM I'm not even sure I hear a difference between 7.1.3 or 8.0. And it's not I can't hear smaller differences, just an example: by coincidence, a few days back, I read about a tip for music servers to set the CPU power phase control setting in the BIOS to 'extreme' and I haven't got a clue why this would work out into a SQ difference upstream but lo and behold there's greater attack/feel of impact in the lower registers.
PS Audio P3, Shunyata ΞTRON Alpha Digital and HC/Furutech power cables, Paul Hynes SR7EHD-MR4, DIY Roon Server & Roon Endpoint running AudioLinux Headless, Phasure Lush^2 USB cable, Audioquest Diamond RJ/E ethernet, Uptone Audio etherREGEN, Mutec MC-3+ USB, Shunyata ΞTRON Anaconda Digital XLR AES/EBU, Devialet Expert 250 Pro CI, Nordost Tyr Reference LS cables, Von Schweikert VR-5 SE Anniversary Edition, Anti-Mode Dual Core 2.0, JL Audio Fathom F112. More detail here.
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
