Denafrips FPGA Firmware Update

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!!

Update: after running through many CD’s since my last post and probably 20+ hours of listening, I’ve had ZERO issues. Whatever happened right after the update must have been an anomaly. The sound is incredible. 

@mksun - Do you have any explanation for how an FPGA update could benefit from a break-in?  

I thought something had finally identified that could be agreed up on that break-in wasn't a factor for, but you're not alone.

An FPGA update doesn't change anything that's hardware related.  It seems that if the digital file getting processed differently requires a break-in period then every individual digital file would require a similar break-in since it would be slightly different.

I think the break-in, in this case, is a combination of getting used to the different sound and having some separation from the previous sound so that the new sound can be judged on its own merits and not so much as a comparison that relies on faulty memories.