That explains why your filter(s) sounds better than before. But, even with Snowmass, I still think I prefer a couple of the HQPlayer filters in the poly-sinc family. The good news is that the major benefits I hear with Snowmass over Redcloud are present whether I use your filter(s) or HQPlayer’s.
Nice job!!
Will the firmware update include the update for the Bridge II as well or will that be separately released later on?
Paul thanks for the new firmware. I downloaded and installed the update without any problems.
First impressions:
Damn you all. I’m going to end up buying one of these things. 
Dire Straits, Telegraph Road, original digital release (the one with actual dynamics.) The footsteps are events that occur in space – so physical. And the sudden chords, the sforzandos, have every bit of impact they ever had but are now so very clear and enunciated, making my recollection of them seem like they’d been distorting or mashed together every previous time I’d heard them. This is magic.
Honestly, if somebody had played Snowmass and Redcloud side by side I would have paid substantial money to get one over the other. Don’t tell Paul and Ted.
Cable TV even sounds noticeably better.
After the first couple of hours, with all the articulation, delicateness and smoothness leaving a sense of the music moving more slowiy, I was wondering about it being a little less lively, but that came around too.
The only question I’d raise is about the added atmosphere losing the sense of placement or grounding of some instruments, with them floating in the back in space. Someone early on mentioned it with regard to piano and I hear that too on some recordings, seemingly more so than with Red Cloud. I don’t know mixing techniques, but have the sense that piano is probably the instrument that audio engineers either have the greatest trouble with in terms of placement in stereo, or just spatially mess with in a way that spreads across the speakers.
If you hav the money, it is worth every penny 
Get one of what?
Hats off Very fine stereo!
Snowmass loaded effortlessly - plus a reboot - which I always do as a matter of course: I couldn’t drag myself away from sitting listening to submit my findings, it was after 11.30pm when Snowmass landed in the UK/Scotland. I listened until 2am then left the DS with the attenuator engaged and playing during 5 hours sleep…! I had updated the DMP 3.10 firmware about an hour before Snowmass landed in my inbox and I thought this might make it difficult for me to make a proper judgement on Snowmass. So, I connected up my other DS from my second system that I could gauge the differences between DMP, Redcloud and Snowmass. Well, I needn’t have bothered, as soon as I heard Snowmass - it’s a paradigm shift in music reproduction through my big system! There is no need to switch back and forth between DS boxes to assess musicality …. No messing around: Snowmass in my system has a sound so distinct and therefore so instantly identifiable there was simply no need to bring DS2 into the room for any type of comparison purposes.
Reading through the many findings this morning of others re: Snowmass, I concur with most of them!
By switching both my DS boxes between Redcloud and Snowmass there appears an aggression in the treble region presented with Redcloud - that I wasn’t aware of - but on switching to Snowmass it is cleaner, clearer, smoother, more air, and it floats, whereas with Redcloud it is rougher-edged and slightly more mechanical…! How black can black get-?-inky-black backdrop, music – music - it just plays music; like I have never heard before with the DS. This is truly special. This appraisal is with Redbook CDs; I’ve still to play SACDs. I will report SACD findings. I am transfixed with standard CDs and wonder how much more can be extracted from PCM… This is a ‘very special’ piece of code. How Ted can create this just blows my mind. The man’s a genius, in rarified air…
‘BIG’ thank you to Ted, Paul and all at PS Audio for creating and delivering this masterpiece. I say it once again ---- it doesn’t cost a dime. “How fortunate are we” (Rabia Fazal)
Hello , I’m posting from the Netherlands.
Fairly new on this forum, but a long-time-friend of PS Audio: my DACs were DL-III, Perfect Wave and now Direct Stream.
I installed Snowmass and can confirm most of the enthusiastic comments.
However I encountered 2 problems:
Does anyone have a copy of the Snowmass beta software they are willing to share with me to try on my DSD this weekend?
Thanks
Paul.
You need to delete all files from the SD card after installing the new firmware. The SD card must be empty and inserted into the DS to display the cover images
Hello !
Deleting the files from the SD-card was never necesary with former firmwares.
Why do you think it is necesary now?
and, by the way, also noticed that the cover disappears from the display of the DS after a few songs …
This was stated in the upgrade instructions. Otherwise, after each reset of the switch DS, the firmware will be installed in the back again.
Now that the beta has had a hammering (and seems to be working well) is there any chance of an official release to the masses this weekend?
@ wdysun
To point 1: I can confirm the same.
To point 2: Take the SD card out of the slot and delete all files on it. Then put it back (necessary for the album pictures)
This is behavior typical of a force load version software. I bet that is what’s happening here, you have a 9999 version of the bootloader on the SD.
