I agree with most of the comments however,
I discovered XRCD recordings are supposed to be better with PCM turned on, not the DSD. I have shared my findings with Martin Reynolds of dCS in 2008 and he agreed and stated ''with some XRCD recordings it could be beneficial to turn off the DSD''.
3 Years later, I see PCM conversion has 3 different mods.(I have upgraded to version 1.21 as well)
But, please make sure you have turned on to PCM from DSD.
Otherwise new filters will not function. It can not be done by cycling from remote.It has the made in main menu of dCSs itself.
I urge the fellow dCS owners to re-check the main menu.
Remote does cycling to Filter 1-4, classic to Asym. It does not mean that you can change immediately by pressing the remote button.
As far as John Atkinson's latest comments on latest upgrade concerned, he stated that ''Asym filter was close to what he remembered of the Meridian 808i Signature player's sound: Individual acoustic objects were that bit better modeled and less like theatrical flats on the soundstage, and there was a greater ease to the sound.''
I need to ask the question where his mind has been?
Dcs Puccini was already a better performer than Meridian 808.2 back in 2008. I wonder why he had been waited until 2011 and declared A+ for dCS and rated as digital Product of year?
I discovered XRCD recordings are supposed to be better with PCM turned on, not the DSD. I have shared my findings with Martin Reynolds of dCS in 2008 and he agreed and stated ''with some XRCD recordings it could be beneficial to turn off the DSD''.
3 Years later, I see PCM conversion has 3 different mods.(I have upgraded to version 1.21 as well)
But, please make sure you have turned on to PCM from DSD.
Otherwise new filters will not function. It can not be done by cycling from remote.It has the made in main menu of dCSs itself.
I urge the fellow dCS owners to re-check the main menu.
Remote does cycling to Filter 1-4, classic to Asym. It does not mean that you can change immediately by pressing the remote button.
As far as John Atkinson's latest comments on latest upgrade concerned, he stated that ''Asym filter was close to what he remembered of the Meridian 808i Signature player's sound: Individual acoustic objects were that bit better modeled and less like theatrical flats on the soundstage, and there was a greater ease to the sound.''
I need to ask the question where his mind has been?
Dcs Puccini was already a better performer than Meridian 808.2 back in 2008. I wonder why he had been waited until 2011 and declared A+ for dCS and rated as digital Product of year?