Firmware 8.1 released!

[Confused]

That's what I said -

I can listen to music on any system and enjoy it

I choose to use a very good system to enjoy it on

But the important thing is the music not the system.

I was thinking about the sentiment expressed in your post when I was driving in my car today singing along to ... well, I won't admit what  .

The systems that I've had most enjoyment from are: my original Linn Lp12/Naim 42 110/Linn Kans and my car stereo.  Not that I don't really like like my current system but I don't think I really get so much pure enjoyment from it as I have had from those other systems.

Back in the 19th century we had music but no audio systems.  If you wanted to listen to music you had to play it yourself, or go out to somewhere where music would be playing.  Of course this would need to be fairly local, because the car had not been invented, so you would need to go on foot, horse or maybe bicycle.  Today we have both music and audio systems, I find they work best in partnership.  Oddly enough, I was listening to some music in the car today, and came across one track I found particularly enjoyable.  When listening to this track, I did find myself thinking that I must stick it on my playlist for listening at home.  If it sounds good in the car, what will it sound like on a decent system?

It does occur to me that one of the key reasons for a forum like this to exist is so like minded users can swap information that can lead to ever greater pleasure from that synergistic combination of music and system.  Why not spend a little time every now and again to make that system just that little more glorious.  Although if you view is forums like this are a wast of time, and time is better spent listening to music and not worrying about all this stuff, then why not listen to music rather than posting on forums that music is more important than the system.

To be clear music is very, very, important to me.  It would be hard to describe just how important, in fact.  This is perhaps the reason I have spent far more money than is sensible on audio kit, and indeed the music to play on it.  Having said all that, does anyone have any posts regarding firmware 8.1?  I understand that SAM 2 does indeed work slightly differently with existing SAM profiles.  Any observation regarding this?