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Does anyone experience sound improvement from restarting power off and on of DAC?

Does anyone experience an improvement in sound from restarting the DAC every week or so by powering off for a minute and then restarting the power back on? I’ve noticed that with my PS Audio Directstream Mk1 that I get a lot of improvement in sound if I power off at the power switch at the back of the dac for a minute and then restart the dac. I find by doing this once every 5 days or so much improves the sound quality. Does anyone else experience this? I have been told on several occasions that this is normal and not to worry. 

mitchb

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brge
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I also used to have a Directstream DAC MK1 and I did notice the same thing: the sound improved whenever I would recycle the power, or even better, when reloading the firmware.

After reading some of the posts from Ted Smith regarding the digital filtering going on in the DAC, I assumed that the sound improved because following those events (i.e. power recycle or firmware reload), the memory where all the previous filtered values gets cleared and we are probably listening to a purer sound (i.e. less filtered). If I were you, I would ask your question directly to Ted Smith via the PS Audio forum webpage.
 

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