New 8.0 firmware

[PhilP]

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 heard very clear differences between 7.1.1 and 7.1.3 and in many ways preferred the latter.  I used 7.1.3 for a few days before trying 8.0 and whilst finding the two similar in sound there was something about 8.0 that I really disliked so I reverted back to 7.1.3. Of course I could be imaging this but given that there have been many posts describing the same sort of differences that I heard then I think that's unlikely.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Antoine's suggestion is correct i.e. that the differences between 7.1.3 and 8.0 are down to the changes in functionality indeed several have reported that with DPM, ICM off the two sound basically the same.  I haven't tried it.

I don't know the explanation for the differences in sound between 7.1.1 and 7.1.3/8.0 but Devialet made changes in the DSP file - who knows what they are.