No one has to tell you, but it won’t hurt: take your time. Vorfreude ist die schönste Freude, as we say here.
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Very true.
Richtig!
This is a mental image that I am going to have burned in my memory.
Hey Ted in post 302 of this thread you mention polarity reversal, is this different than channel reversal, I’m guessing now that it is.
Polarity reversal is like switching the “+” and “-“ leads at the amp or speaker. Channel reversal is like plugging the left speaker into the right speaker outputs of your amp and plugging the right speaker into the left speaker outputs of your amp.
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Well, that’s good to know. Oh well, channel switching would have been useful.
Thanks!
Thanks so much Paul for being so thorough! It’s much more important to get it right than it is to get it out the door immediately. 
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Hopefully it’ll come by the weekend.
Yes, that would certainly be nice. But if they are choosing between 30 different builds, that leaves them with very little time to listen to each of these builds and to compare them against each other to find the best sounding one.
I’d much rather have them spend the time which is required to find the best sounding build then to have them feel pressured to release something quickly which would be sonically compromised.
Seriously guys, please stop pressuring the fine people at PS Audio to get this out so quickly. By doing this you are probably shooting yourself in the foot. You are only encouraging them to cut corners by doing so. Listening tests take TIME to do properly. Initial impressions are often wrong with subjective listening tests, and need to be reconfirmed numerous times to really be certain about what you are hearing.
Every time that we pressure PS Audio to get this out quickly, you should ask yourself just how long you think that it would take for you to exhaustively compare the sound of 30 different FPGA builds. I know that for myself it would take an absolute minimum of a week, but probably closer to two.
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Updates to the GUI would really be great, @Paul.
I recall the wife of a friend asking her husband to get the new Auralic Vega 2 DAC+Streamer over the DS simply because it had a much prettier UI. It’s ability to use the entire display for album art and its crisp, sharp fonts on a black background are all plusses in her book.
She listens to music as much as her husband, and with her perfect 20/20 vision, has no problems reading small text on LCD screens even from afar. The husband bought the DS + Bridge II over the Auralic Vega, but the wife with her degree in graphic design still wishes it made better use of the available real estate in its full-color display.
For example, using Helvetica instead of “MS-DOS” style console fonts. Or showing the actual MQA logo instead of text followed by a dot. Or showing the Roon logo instead of text that isn’t even aligned with other text below it. Or a black background which will make everything more legible.
I realize all this is secondary or even tertiary to how great the DS sounds. I know because I own one. I just can’t deny the fact that my friend’s wife has a point. 
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Paul, is the DMP-like Display also coming now? You mentioned this around the Redcloud release.
I have not read a single post from anyone here pressuring PS Audio to get the update out quickly. People are saying that they hope that it comes out soon but that is not the same pressuring them to get it out soon. We all want the release done right.
Also, they are started from scratch with the builds because Ted found a problem and I assume fixed it. Those 30 builds he did are not being are gone and new builds will be in the running.
We all know that listening tests don’t take 5 minutes. We also know that PS Audio has a well established process for this and that they know what they are doing. How long it would take you or me is completely irrelevant.
PS Audio will post the new release when they feel it is ready. Me, you, or the guy next door and what we want will not have an effect on the timing of the release.
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Not a single post? Are you serious? Each time that somebody says something like “Oh I can’t wait to listen to it this weekend!” Or “I sure hope they get it out by Friday” or “I’m going on vacation for a month starting next week, and I sure hope that you get this out before I leave.” this puts pressure on the fine people at PS Audio. Read the thread again, there are MANY such comments to be found.
And if you don’t think that this sort of pressure from customers, on management, which filters its way to employee can’t influence people’s decisions to say “good enough” sooner than they otherwise might, then I don’t believe that you have ever worked at a small to midsize company which produces actual products.
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Don’t confuse people’s desire to have the new release with them pressuring PS Audio to hurry it up. I don’t get a sense from anyone posting here that they are trying to hurry up the release or are putting pressure on PS Audio to get it out before they think it is ready. People here are just looking forward to getting the new release.
I’ve worked in the computer industry for 35 plus years in small, medium, and large companies in sales, support, and engineering roles. I very well know the difference between anticipation and pressure. Maybe you don’t…
PS Audio is a very mature company that knows what they are doing. They won’t confuse anticipation with pressure…
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Spot-on… All you need is two or three people asking “WILL it be this week” or “I thought it was THIS FRIDAY now it’s not” type scenario. Sounding frustrated… Applying slight pressure… I, too, have read this type of stuff with other code releases.
Of course owners of the wonderful DS & Jr dacs want the latest code but I only want it released when it has been fully tested and approved. “Bug free”.
…Speaking as someone who has had more than my fair share of grief, still enduring, with DMP new code releases…
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I am with you. This is too big of an update. It really is a freaking miracle in sound quality improvement.
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It is definitely a lot of work, though thankfully it’s not as bad as you might think. Some of the builds are immediately rejected out of hand. Ugh. Darren and I have a routine. We can go through all 30 builds in under an hour, segregating them into go no go piles. The real listening challenge is when the piles begin narrowing down. The last pile of perhaps 5 takes what seems liker a lifetime.
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