Firmware 12.2.12

[Spindrift]

I switched to Beta 14 today and posted some observations in my streaming thread.  Although these comments were relevant in the other thread, I thought I would post here also.

This morning I loaded up firmware 12.2.12 Beta 14.  With a quick listen, I can't say that I noticed any significant differences to Beta 12.  Let's put it this way, if I had not known the firmware had changed, I certainly would not have picked this up from sound quality changes.  One thing I did notice, is that with Beta 14 I seem to need a lot more volume gain.  I have not been paying much attention to volume levels recently but did today when doing a AIR versus SOtM / Mutec trial.  Volume levels (gain) seemed much higher than I have needed to use in the past.  I might even try reverting back to Beta 12 to compare properly, but I am out of time today.  Has anyone else noticed this?  I recall that there have been some posts about higher temperatures in the amp with Beta 14.  Maybe this is directly related to the gain issue.  Has anyone else noticed similar?

That has been my observation as well - I would estimate 4-5 degrees higher temp - particularly noted for the analog section- can’t say I’m turning up the volume noticeably more but i might just not be noticing. . . 

Having used the Sotm/mutec/ref 10 combine for a couple months, I have to say the new roon/air is basically equivalent- the imaging of acoustic instruments seems tighter more coherent with the sotm combo still, but that may just be expectation bias on my part!

Cheers