New firmware 8.1.3

[Mikeeo]

Finally on 8.1.3!

I feel it is cleaner and more 'behaved' or 'balanced'. Though I lost some bass (or at least something bom bom) but also the slight boom/thump I had before. In some way I feel it is a bit more linear through the freq spectra. Also a bit less top freq which seem to contradict others experience.
But formost I lost some loudness, perhaps 5 dB which is surprising as others reported 'louder' character.

All for now/Mike

Interesting observations.  Having now spent some time on 8.1.3, I think some of my observations re bass are very similar to yours.  However, I had put this down to SAM 2 differences.  So are you comparing to an earlier 8.x.x or 7.x.x version, and with or without SAM?

I was on 8.1.2 before ie SAM V2 and the difference isn't small vs 8.1.3. More interesting is that my 8.1.2 SAM setting was 25% but know I can run 100% without any problem with 8.1.3. 
But I think I read somewhere that enabling delay for Master may disengage SAM even if system says it is on SAM, or? In general not much difference between SAM and no SAM (coherence wise) except the really deep bass notes that SAM now gives (so I guess SAM is working).
These are my initial findings, will spend some more focused time tomorrow with well know recordings.

/M