Finally updated today after the cable arrived. Sitting here now I can sense an uplift in SQ. The music sounds sweeter and more composed.
Somebody tell me the update has no effect on SQ and it’s bias confirmation. Or is it real?
Never had the confidence to trust my own ears on anything but major upgrades!
Naim fine tune the firmware before releasing any new version to make sure it sounds right. From what I can remember 4.7 was very good. It might sound unlikely, but it’s not just you.
I checked on the 4.4 & 4.7 firmware DSP file, they are indeed different file numbers so might sound different.
But as I said in previous post #19, it seemed to be a matter of personal preferences & different streamer models & systems.
I think it is indeed preference as I tried the 4.7 firmware for a while but eventually reverted back to 4.4 as I preferred the sound. I believe there was a debate at the time and opinion between the two was split.
I guess much will depend on the surrounding setup and environment. More listening needed but it appears to have tamed some of the unwanted exuberance in my system. I guess on a different system this taming could be a detractor.
That said I’m still not 100% sure I’m not imagining it, time will tell.
edit: Interestingly just did a search and first post mentions ‘dampening’ of the treble. I guess one listeners dampening is another listeners sweetening.
In the beta room there is an short explanation in the FAQ about what this “tuning” involves. Don’t want to copy it because of rules, but I get the impression that some members are making too much of it. No change is done to the bits that are delivered, so nobody “pressed a loudness button”
If I recall, and looking at the timestamps, the debate was a choice provided to NDS, NDX, ND5XS and N272 users as to which firmware version was preferred, with different DSP settings:
4.4.72
4.4.73
which then got blended into the 4.4.75 release, following that feedback and listening test undertaken in Naim HQ.
The firmware releases have been subsequent made introducing Tidal related functionality and fixes, with 4.7 being the current since the beginning of 2019.
I don’t believe the Beta 4.8 release (4.7.31) makes any changes to the DSP settings from the 4.4.7x releases.
You need to compare .dsp file numbers.
Whatever, no point in going over old firmware, we are not going back there.
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