23-Dec-2015, 18:57
(23-Dec-2015, 12:35)Confused Wrote: Just upgraded to 9.0.1. Now I was intrigued by Devialet's words "Suppression of the possible crosstalk between the LINE1 input (RCA3/4) and PHONO input (RCA5/6)." Would this reduce the phono hiss? Well, Dr Tone has already reported that it appeared to be much the same, which was disappointing. Anyway, ever the optimist I decided to check the issue using the scientific method. Still on 8.1.3, I selected the phono input and took two decibel readings using an iPhone app. One with the Devialet set to 0dB, another at -15dB, which is about as loud as I ever listen to vinyl. This was done with the iPhone basically shoved within millimetres of one of the speakers Uni-q drivers. I then updated to 9.0.1 and repeated the experiment. The results were absolutely identical between the two firmware versions, zero difference. So no improvement, which is disappointing, but I can at least confirm Dr Tone's ears are working more or less as they should.
Thanks for the confirmation on my ears.
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