Denafrips FPGA Firmware Update

To everyone who is benefited from the updated firmware, I would put a value to this update solely based on my own experience.

After the update, I felt my Chord TT2 has fallen behind. Then I figured that if I fed the P-II with Wireworld Platinum I2S, I should give the TT2 a better cable (just to be fair to TT2, and, I am also a cable believer). So I order the Audio Sensibivity’s Signature Silver S/PDIF (BNC), and paid a small dough for the burn in. It costed me about $500. Now I am getting "the same kind of listening enjoyment" from my TT2. I don’t want to name who is better. I only wanted to point out that Denafrips and Alvin have saved us at least $500. :)

Note: Could someone provide me a link for advices on what SPF module, Ethernet convertor, and Optical cable that are best for connecting LHY SW 8 to SW10 because I already had the SW8. On YouTube. I remembered Alvin had mentioned that. Thanks

I got a chance to roll my firmware back to the first version and after the flashing and restarting, my Pontus 2 is now really distorted in I2S mode, USB sounds fine. So I thought I would reinstall the version1 again and exact same thing. I can tell what song is playing.... barely. I can hear USB playback just fine, but I was using I2S 100% of the time because it sounds so much better, up until now. I am just shutting it down completely until I can get an answer what to do.

It is a costly move but you can replace the DSP module for around $350 with the new firmware already installed. You can swap the modules back and forth wth different sound tracks to see what the differences will be between updated version and original.

Denafrips recommended this to me since my computer skills weren't up to task to perform update.

triode4

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04-19-2023 at 03:47pm 

I got a chance to roll my firmware back to the first version and after the flashing and restarting, my Pontus 2 is now really distorted in I2S mode, USB sounds fine. So I thought I would reinstall the version1 again and exact same thing. I can tell what song is playing.... barely. I can hear USB playback just fine, but I was using I2S 100% of the time because it sounds so much better, up until now. I am just shutting it down completely until I can get an answer what to do.

Maybe the HDMI pin designations changed when you updated?

Maybe the HDMI pin designations changed when you updated?

Yes, THANKYOU!! That's what it was!