Since people have been fishing for information about the FPGA changes in the upcoming software release for the DS and DS Jr I thought I’d start a separate thread to avoid hijacking other threads. I don’t know PS Audio’s release schedule and can’t guess because I have no idea what else they will be …

I would not classify the sound of the dsd used in conjunction with the BHK preamp and amp as lean in any way. I believe system synergy due to speakers used with that equipment would be responsible for that. Surely the sound of my system using the B&W 800s is not lean.

I’m sure anyone listening to my system with the DSD and BHK preamp and amp would not consider it lean either. But having lived with an Ayon tubed CD player, I consider the DSD a tad on the lean side of reality. Although the DSD wipes the floor of the Ayon CD player I had in just about every way, the…

If I could get a release with the spatial refinement of 3.0.0 and the detail and bass definition of 3.0.6 I would have a mountain top I could live on… anything extra would be a sublime surprise.

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Here’s the thread where a link to it was posted: [image] Windom firmware DACs Our local distributor just posted this link, but the firmware doesn’t appear to be live yet (at least not here). But the release video has been filmed! [Edit: Gary_M beat me.]

More on topic… Ted, in every release to date I understand you’ve improved the sound quality of the DS DAC by making things more “correct” and/or more efficient, and I don’t doubt that you’ve followed the same methodology with Windom. But I am curious how confident you are that the reported “fullne…

There are good technical reasons to Windom better than Snowmass - it’s not just a “reflavoring.” (And you’ll have the same people deciding which of 20 compiles to use as you did in Snowmass.) For my part, each change was only motivated by trying to get more crap out of the way of the sound. E.g. …

[image] tedsmith: E.g. using fewer of the resources in the FPGA that generate the most noise (something we learned about in Snowmass.) It always interesting how much can still be learned and improved within a theoretically accurate process :wink: It seems the general process is not the main …

I can’t convince many that we need to think of the FPGA as an analog device, not a digital device. But (at least some of) the engineers at Xilinx certainly know this. From the 2nd release of the FPGA code we’ve known that the noise and jitter in the FPGA can’t be ignored and I’ve been making good …

Was Upcoming DS release - Now Windom has been released

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tedsmith September 20, 2019, 3:59am 118

Here’s the thread where a link to it was posted:

[Edit: Gary_M beat me.]

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