Denafrips FPGA Firmware Update

FYI: According to the Area II User Manual the Slow/Sharp Filters only affect the sound of the DAC in OS Mode.

Old firmware versions now on line to download.

The link is the one in the original upgrade email from VINSHINE AUDIO, and there are now both new and old firmware available for download.

I'll be keeping my Pontus II at the latest FIRMWARE update. I hear more detail in music I am familiar with, and my music is mostly Jazz trio/quartet—which sounds lucious, wide, detailed and open. Quite happy!

+1 For keeping the FPGA update for the Pontus II. @franktc55 I fully agree with your assessment and it sounds even better after 100+ hours of burn-in.

I also like the new firmware as well and had installed for two weeks but I decided to roll back today to the original 1.0 firmware to compare. Wow. I definitely now prefer 1.0. I’m starting to think that they updated firmware 1.0 with the fixes and improvements but used the original DSP. Back is the fullness, sweet extended highs, more immersive and harmonically rich, and less dryness I hear in the 1.3. I’m hearing the details of 1.3 and tghter bass. You should go back and try 1.0 again, it only takes a few minutes!!