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Meitner/EMM Labs Firmware Upgrade = Sonic Bliss

As some of you know EMM Labs/Meitner has just released a MAJOR Firmware Upgrade for the DAC2x and MA-1.

I have the MA-1 and here is my impressions on the differences in the sonics after the upgrade.

But first, RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN AND GET THIS FIRMWARE UPGRADE, PERIOD!!

OK, So far I hear HUGE dynamics with more lifelike harmonics, better imaging, separation of instruments, with a bigger sound-stage, cleaner-less noise, not that it was noisy before, better spacial cues. Better leading and trailing edge. Highs that go ever so high but are not harsh but clean, in a natural way. Better timing and pace, so more musical...etc.

And I can go on and on. I do not know how they could do so much of a sonic improvement with just a Firmware Upgrade.

Two of the PCM hirez albums I used. Lang Lang, Rachmaninoff:Piano Concert No, 3 (24/176) and Dave Brubeck, Concord on a Summer Night.

I have not tried DSD yet.

Contact your dealer or EMM LABS or Meitner for the firmware.
hifial
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syntax
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That's what I like about digital Hardware. No matter what you/we own right now, no matter how expensive the unit was/is, the next upgrade is always a sonic revolution. A game changer. Something ultra terrific. Something which beams us back into a dark cave when not jumping for it...

Sometimes (but only sometimes) I ask myself, why did nobody hear the flaws before? Is a correct tonal reproduction something which comes over night from outer space?
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hifial OP
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Syntax, the same can be said for analog or just about anything. There is not much in the world that does not progress and get better.

But you read too much into my impressions. The MA-1 prior to the Firmware Upgrade was by no means wanting at all.
It was/is one of the best sounding DAC's in the world. With this firmware it is now that much better.

And I think it is great that some digital gear CAN have improvements made that are free to the end user. I can not think of any analog gear that can be improved upon by a just free update.

doggiehowser
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Is there one for the XDS1 v1? :(
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