New firmware 8.1.3

[MusicFirst]

Since my Wilson Benesch Vector have just been SAMed, I gave 8.1.3 another try earlier today. It's now even better than without SAM.

The bass is much more refined, but the medium and high seem to benefit also.

Truly outstanding sound my friends!

Cheers,
Bernard

Try 8.1.3 beta. Maybe it will be truly amazing sound

Guillaume was kind enough to send me a copy of his 8.1.3 'beta' last week.  (Thanks G.!)

In my opinion, 8.1.3 beta is far superior to the official 8.1.3 release as well as my previous long term (in Devialet time) reference 7.1.3.  

I find my Jamo R909s sound a little boomy on both 8.1.3 versions with full SAM, but dialing back SAM a little to 80 or 90% seems to deal with the problem.  

Overall the sound of 8.1.3 beta is the best release of all since I started listening to my Devialets starting with FW 7.1.1.

My system is now very revealing with the addition of Valhalla 2 speaker cables and the difference between 7.1.3 and 8.1.3 beta is easily heard.  Compared to 8.1.3 and even 7.1.3, 8.1.3 beta is more detailed and has more top end extension while still being more musical.

On my setup, one other anomaly is the apparent increase in right channel strength with both 8.1.3s,  I have to adjust the balance 6% to the left to centre the image.  With 7.1.3, I had to adjust 4% to the right to achieve the same imaging.  Very Strange.

One can only hope that 8.1.X will come around to 8.1.3 beta in terms of sound quality.  I don't want to be left behind in terms of firmware development, but for me it's musicfirst