26-Jun-2015, 19:08
"Firmware 7.1.3 is actually the last release of Firmware 7. Meaning that this is the most stable version of our firmwares.
I posted this information a couple of weeks ago, but I thought it very relevant to a few of the recent posts on this thread. This is info from Devialet themselves.....
"Firmware 8 is newer than the 7 and it includes many improvements compared to firmware 7 (ICM, DPM, phono menu). It does however need some corrections, that will consequently appear in firmware 8.1"
"Actually the 7.1.1 compared to the 7.1.3 is very different; Because the 7.1.3 brought many ameliorations to the 7.1.1.
So it is not surprising that the sound is better on the 7.1.3, simply because it corrects and improve the general version 7 of the firmware.
Of course in the future, we hope to do the same with firmware 8."
So maybe we will end up with some kind of fully optimised 7.1.3beta style version of 8.x.x in the fullness of time? This seems to be what Devialet are implying above. As to the horror of Devialet offering more than one Firmware version, isn't this exactly what happened when 7.1.3beta was offered? Perhaps we can forgive them the odd beta version, but I am beginning to think that maybe they released the beta version as some kind of appeasement in anticipation of 8.0 being released and problematic, pure speculation of course.
I posted this information a couple of weeks ago, but I thought it very relevant to a few of the recent posts on this thread. This is info from Devialet themselves.....
"Firmware 8 is newer than the 7 and it includes many improvements compared to firmware 7 (ICM, DPM, phono menu). It does however need some corrections, that will consequently appear in firmware 8.1"
"Actually the 7.1.1 compared to the 7.1.3 is very different; Because the 7.1.3 brought many ameliorations to the 7.1.1.
So it is not surprising that the sound is better on the 7.1.3, simply because it corrects and improve the general version 7 of the firmware.
Of course in the future, we hope to do the same with firmware 8."
So maybe we will end up with some kind of fully optimised 7.1.3beta style version of 8.x.x in the fullness of time? This seems to be what Devialet are implying above. As to the horror of Devialet offering more than one Firmware version, isn't this exactly what happened when 7.1.3beta was offered? Perhaps we can forgive them the odd beta version, but I am beginning to think that maybe they released the beta version as some kind of appeasement in anticipation of 8.0 being released and problematic, pure speculation of course.
