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PS Audio NEW Huron Firware upgrade. 😩😫😩

I was greatly anticipating this new firware upgrade for the direct stream ,and Jr dac.
i downloaded and applied this new huron so called upgrade   Was a Major letdown for me .
i love the analog like presentation before and row 6-8 perspective. Now it  is in your face town 1-2
to the 5 who heard it in my system Pass labs  class A mono blocks,DHT 4P1L Vacuum tube preamp,Silnote  upper cables 
Sonus Faber Olypica-3 speakers  Aurender 100-H  player AQ Diamond USB   
Core power technologies 1800 for line voltage.   It looks like I may have no choice but go back to the last 
generation of firmware  What a let down ,a few others online on other forums agree .i am sure some will like it  some of the musicality and flow of music are gone  it sounds more like a Sabre dac .
only 1 out of 5 at my house liked the change .how about  a happy medium .
for sure a revision should be in order . The analog smoothness was always welcome just a bit more bottom end and detail  back off the upsampling some ,maybe too much of a good thing.  In another setup 
that is all tubes it may be a good thing .
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audioman58 OP
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The good thing is I can revert back firmware any time I choose , and there is 
Sonic adjustments coming up in the near future . Sometimes progress has to 
Take s temporary step back to progress 2  ahead.
kdude66
1,200 posts
 
That's a bummer,
I won't upgrade mine,I like it just the way it is.

Maybe down the road the sonic adjustments will make a better dac.

Best,


Kenny.
pmotz
412 posts
 
Audioman58, I presume you are pauljvl2122 from the PS Audio forums.  Assuming that is correct, you should be clear to everyone here that your DS DAC has about 175 hours on it and it was recommended by a couple of folks on the PS Audio site to give it more time, say 250-300 hours before making decisions on sound.  It was also suggested to play with speaker positioning.  Just trying to present all of the facts here ...

For those that aren't completely familiar with the PS Audio DirectStream DAC, there have been several firmware updates provided by PS Audio.  Each one has been FREE.  The firmware is posted on the PS Audio website, you download it as a zip file, unzip it to a SD card, place the SD card in your DS DAC, and turn it on.  The firware loads automatically and you can go back and forth from any version of the firmware to any other version.  It doesn't ge any better than that (at least in the real world)!
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lwin
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I have to vehemently disagree with Audioman58. I really liked Torrey's but in all parameters Huron is better. It doesn't cost anything to try and as pmotz said you can always go back to Torrey's. The DS dac is the least expensive piece of equipment in my music system and it wasn't until I had 300+ hours on it that it started to come into it's own.
lancelock
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@lwin - +1 on Huron, it sounds incredible to me. At first I was hearing some crackling that wasn't there before, I thought I had a woofer or a tube going. Not sure what that was but I reloaded it again, let the system run in a while and no noise. I am hearing more music, Micro details. Less noise = more music.
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