I am thus closing the Windom thread and starting two new threads: Windom: Sound Impressions Windom: Installation Problems The original all-purpose Windom thread is here . Please let me know if I can otherwise help.

AFAIK a bad load doesn’t imply that the download is corrupted or incomplete. It’s that the content of the flash memory is corrupted but the code can be fine, e.g. configuration parameters, etc. might be bad. In general you’ll get an error when you boot if the boot images are corrupted, in particul…

I don’t remember that post, could you point it out?

So how can people say that Windom sounds not as good with the first download, but better after going back and forth, ie from Yale to Windom?

I don’t understand your question. My hypothesis is that: There are at least three things we might be talking about: A small percentage of people (but many more on the DS Jr) have a corrupted flash. Doing an upgrade (that changes the version numbers) from that state has a small chance of not soun…

[image] tedsmith: I don’t know of a case where (if the version numbers change as expected on each load) you need to do this more than a couple of times. I don’t want to bug you on this, Ted. I’m just curious why one would have to do the download more than once if the version numbers change as…

After a long reading into the old thread, I finally found it: [image] Was Upcoming DS release - Now Windom has been released DACs Let me say…If and when you get the sublime download…STOP MESSING WITH IT! I had the perfect most incredible sound and thought…hmmm maybe it co…

I do remember that post now. It’s definitely an outlier and I can’t help but thing there were some confounding issues, perhaps like those I listed above. [Edit: and that an upgrade lowers the sound quality for a little and if you don’t expect that you may think you are going backwards. I’m talkin…

[image] RonP: I’m just curious why one would have to do the download more than once if the version numbers change as expected. Just curious. And let me add that, in my case, Windom sounds better after going from Yale to Windom than from Snowmass. And I’m perfectly willing to accept that it is j…

That was me…i got back to bliss and have left it alone.

So after listening to Windom for two weeks, I did begin to notice the sound was a bit hot and I would experience some ear fatigue after listening for a while. First I tried dialing down the volume on the DAC to 95, then 90, then 85. At 85 I thought this just isn’t right so I decided to back down to …

Windom: Installation/Technical Problems

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B.Gelinas October 15, 2019, 12:23am 41

After a long reading into the old thread, I finally found it:

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Was Upcoming DS release - Now Windom has been released DACs	1153	35189	October 13, 2019
Issue with Snowmass 3.06 (and Windom), killing sound randomly on USB input DACs	80	3367	November 23, 2020
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Windom: Installation/Technical Problems

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