# Unhappy with the new NAIM update

**URL:** <https://community.naimaudio.com/t/unhappy-with-the-new-naim-update/36876>\
**Category:** Streaming Audio\
**Created:** [October 1, 2024, 9:32am UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/unhappy-with-the-new-naim-update/36876 "2024-10-01T09:32:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fatcat](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/fatcat/32/345834_2.png) [@Fatcat](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/Fatcat)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/unhappy-with-the-new-naim-update/36876/86 "2024-10-07T19:50:41Z")

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> [@davidhendon](#):
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> Because it’s not an intentional or planned improvement or indeed change, but rather an unintentional consequence of the way the new firmware affects the low level noise in the streamers.

Whether the change in sound quality was intentional or not is irrelevant. Naim must have known the firmware update changed the sound, it would be pretty amateurish if they didn’t monitor sound quality after a firmware update.

Plus we know sound quality variation is discussed amongst the beta testers. @HungryHalibut

> [@Happy with the new Naim update](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/happy-with-the-new-naim-update/36834/29):
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> One of the beta builds sounded particularly good, so it was agreed to keep that sound in the final version. I’m assuming that happened but of course don’t know for sure.

What Naim should be doing, is, next the install update button, put a note.

![image](https://d2ikyu8xyuibjx.cloudfront.net/original/4X/d/5/0/d50677ea75b6fecab7bd05f2528be72409e65e7d.png)

Anyway, it appears Naim are not refusing to facilitate rolling back of the firmware. So, all good. 😀

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