23-Jul-2015, 21:19
From Devialet's own website (the Temple of Truth)
"FIRMWARE V8.1.3
- Fix of potential issue with SAM V2 bass extension on certain profiles"
Now in my case SAM V2 bass extension with 8.1.2 was utterly bonkers! On 8.1.3, very different indeed. I need to spend more time listening / experimenting, but it now appears that SAM V2 in 8.1.3 is moving towards being very subtle, but if I do try to run SAM 100%, with some music it does sound like there is too much bass, at the very very lowest frequencies.
In terms of what I think 8.1.3 sounds like, I did do a lot of listening last weekend, however, this was in company, so I didn't want to spend lots of time looking like an idiot by constantly experimenting with SAM %. Earlier on, I had simply selected SAM at 40%, later on we listened to lots of favourite tunes. This weekend I will have time for some serious listening and will experiment with "new" SAM. However, based on last weekend's listening, I don't think my system has ever sounded so good. SAM V2 + 8.1.3 looks very promising indeed.
One caveat, I was sent 8.1.3 a couple of weeks ago by Devialet support due to my ongoing SAM V2 issues, they described it a "beta" version in the covering email, but the files themselves made no mention of beta. So I'm not sure if I have been running exactly the same version as released today or not.
"FIRMWARE V8.1.3
- Fix of potential issue with SAM V2 bass extension on certain profiles"
Now in my case SAM V2 bass extension with 8.1.2 was utterly bonkers! On 8.1.3, very different indeed. I need to spend more time listening / experimenting, but it now appears that SAM V2 in 8.1.3 is moving towards being very subtle, but if I do try to run SAM 100%, with some music it does sound like there is too much bass, at the very very lowest frequencies.
In terms of what I think 8.1.3 sounds like, I did do a lot of listening last weekend, however, this was in company, so I didn't want to spend lots of time looking like an idiot by constantly experimenting with SAM %. Earlier on, I had simply selected SAM at 40%, later on we listened to lots of favourite tunes. This weekend I will have time for some serious listening and will experiment with "new" SAM. However, based on last weekend's listening, I don't think my system has ever sounded so good. SAM V2 + 8.1.3 looks very promising indeed.
One caveat, I was sent 8.1.3 a couple of weeks ago by Devialet support due to my ongoing SAM V2 issues, they described it a "beta" version in the covering email, but the files themselves made no mention of beta. So I'm not sure if I have been running exactly the same version as released today or not.