Denafrips FPGA Firmware Update

From what I read in HeadFi forum, apparently Denafrips are aware of the complaints and diligently working on releasing new firmware updates for Pontus II with both EP4CE22F and EP4CE6F chips. We shall see...

Anyways, I  have never seen such an active interaction between a manufacturer and audiophile community...  simply amazing.

Yeah, it's pretty awesome. I'm following the discussions at other forums as well. Denafrips is great. To the point mentioned earlier, I have also started taking some measures to voice my system due to the change and for now have simply moved some power cords around. Most notably I had a power cord with Rhodium plated copper plugs on the Pontus II and decided to use a cord (same design) with pure copper plugs to offset some of the high frequencies and bring back a bit more warmth. If there is a way for them to bring back the tonality with a bit more warmth/fullness/natural high end, but with the clarity and detail of the new update, that would be great.

My Ares II had the occasional skipping issue.  Also an early production unit, Ares II circuitry in an plain Ares box.  Confirmed by Alvin.  Update went smoothly.  No more skipping.

Prior to the update there was a definite sound difference between positive and negative phase selection. After the update unable to detect a difference.  

Listened to a couple reference tracks prior to update.  Same tracks after the update were much cleaner.  Individual notes had more separation, impact and decay.  Overall, a major improvement.  

@texbychoice

Prior to the update there was a definite sound difference between positive and negative phase selection. After the update unable to detect a difference.

I noticed that also with my Ares II. I almost always used phase with the light on, but after the update, there was much less a difference. In addition, last evening, while streaming (Tidal, not from my server), I tried NOS and I think I now prefer it. Like many, I had it set to OS/slow filter before, but really felt the NOS setting was now more to my liking. I’ll have to check it out when spinning CD’s and playing ripped files on the server too.

Most people I know prefer NOS mode to oversampling. Has a more natural presentation with larger soundstage.