04-Jun-2018, 00:04
I don't check the temperature of my 130 all that often so no comment on that.
I do find myself using a higher volume setting but there's no consistency about how much higher and sometimes I find myself using a lower volume setting but to list confounding factors other than the change from Beta 12 to Beta 14 in my system:
- I stopped using SAM just before Beta 14 came out and was still getting used to that change when I installed Beta 14. I haven't gone back to using SAM with Beta 14 apart from a couple of A/B comparisons to see if Beta 14 changed my decision to stop using SAM and it hasn't.
- New version of Roon
- I finally got a hard wired ethernet connection from my router to the room in which the audio system is located and was able to stop using a wifi satellite as an ethernet switch and replace it with a Netgear ethernet switch with no wifi functionality. That seemed to drop the noise floor in my system so I suspect that the wifi satellite was a noisier device than the switch which replaced it and I find myself listening at slightly lower levels after that change than before, but still at higher levels most of the time than before Beta 14.
Overall my system is definitely sounding better to me now than it was before I installed Beta 14, and better than it sounded to me before I stopped using SAM. How much of that improvement is due to Beta 14 and how much is due to the other factors I listed above is anyone's guess. Those other factors have definitely made their own contributions but Beta 14 has delivered part of the improvement in my view. I do think part of the change in my listening levels is due to stopping using SAM.
I do find myself using a higher volume setting but there's no consistency about how much higher and sometimes I find myself using a lower volume setting but to list confounding factors other than the change from Beta 12 to Beta 14 in my system:
- I stopped using SAM just before Beta 14 came out and was still getting used to that change when I installed Beta 14. I haven't gone back to using SAM with Beta 14 apart from a couple of A/B comparisons to see if Beta 14 changed my decision to stop using SAM and it hasn't.
- New version of Roon
- I finally got a hard wired ethernet connection from my router to the room in which the audio system is located and was able to stop using a wifi satellite as an ethernet switch and replace it with a Netgear ethernet switch with no wifi functionality. That seemed to drop the noise floor in my system so I suspect that the wifi satellite was a noisier device than the switch which replaced it and I find myself listening at slightly lower levels after that change than before, but still at higher levels most of the time than before Beta 14.
Overall my system is definitely sounding better to me now than it was before I installed Beta 14, and better than it sounded to me before I stopped using SAM. How much of that improvement is due to Beta 14 and how much is due to the other factors I listed above is anyone's guess. Those other factors have definitely made their own contributions but Beta 14 has delivered part of the improvement in my view. I do think part of the change in my listening levels is due to stopping using SAM.
Roon Nucleus+, Devilalet Expert 140 Pro CI, Focal Sopra 2, PS Audio P12, Keces P8 LPS, Uptone Audio EtherREGEN with optical fibre link to my router, Shunyata Alpha NR and Sigma NR power cables, Shunyata Sigma ethernet cables, Shunyata Alpha V2 speaker cables, Grand Prix Audio Monaco rack, RealTRAPS acoustic treatment.
Brisbane, Qld, Australia
