Jeg lyttet lenge til musikk med Windom i går, men trenger mer tid til å virkelig å høre endringene sammenlignet med Snowmass. Er heller ikke så analytisk ift. lyd som mange på PS Audio sitt forum:
https://forum.psaudio.com/t/was-upcoming-ds-release-now-windom-has-been-released/11935/363
"This is a treat, dare I say especially for us classical fans. The texture of voices and strings are just more beautiful, real and you get more of everything. Added low level detail is absolutely there, thank you very much Ted and all!"
"I noticed lower noise floor, more detail and improved soundstage dimensions, and a fuller, richer sound, with the delicacy of both the sound and the “poetry” preserved. Kudos to Ted. Paul, and the gang for a wonderful update. Hopefully it will continue to improve…"
"IMPRESSIONS
I choose to not read any other reviews before I had listened myself since I wanted to be neutral and not decide mentally beforehand. I will put it plainly and not overdo the words.
My immediate impression was Whole, Full and Real. Not just little but much. With previous upgrades I whent through a set of music pieces by listening to parts of them, to get a quick feel. This time I instead ended up listening to the whole pieces. I was simply touched by hearing the whole instruments, notes, voices etc. Gone was eventual slight sibilance coldness etc that could make me a bit tired before. Old recordings that was good before, was now more involving, fuller and richer. And all this because of more Whole notes and decay as I believe."
"I did about 20 mins of listening prior to the upgrade to Windom. Smooth install. I did notice a small benefit previously upgrading to Snowmass- but very small. I was expecting a similar improvement.
A previous comment here was that it was noticeable in 10 seconds… I would have to agree. Playing Melody Gardot was even better than I could have hoped for. Totally captivating! The best description was blacker backgrounds coupled with a level of richness/solidity not previously heard… anywhere! Even running the TV through it sounded better. More heft/guts in voices. It was the type of change I might have expected if I had a power plant."
"I personally felt that Windom had too much grit, so much so, that I was initially dizzy from the sound coming out of my speakers - it is as if I did not recognize my music anymore. I guess after having been accustomed to the sound of Snowmass 3.0.6, the step to Windom was a bit too much."
Senere poster fra denne DS-eieren viser at han hadde fått en dårlig, ufullstendig oppdatering. Etter en god oppdatering (tilbake til tidligere versjoner, så til Windom og et par kaldstarter) istemmer han fullstendig med andre som bare har godord om Windom.)
Ted Smith (the DS creator): "Here some of the stuff up top that bugged my tinnitus are gone so a lot of things sound much more natural to me.
"That’s interesting, Ted, but if I may it does lead to a question. Have you achieved such refinement in the progressions of DSD FW that it’s possible the revisions may now be tuned more to what suits you than to what is “correct”? You know I ask with the greatest respect to your expertise, but what if whatever it was that was aggravating your tinnitus was actually correct? Personally I think Windom is a notable advance from Snowmass(es). At the moment I find nothing about it that makes me wonder if I should drop back to a previous FW version."
"After having a chance to listen again after about 12 hours after update, what I’m finding is that the system now delivers past the event horizon.
I’ve never heard the acoustic space around an instrument so well portrayed. It’s become so much more audible. The instruments themselves have now become three dimensional, fully textured, bubling to live in only the way real music does. The audience voices in Sunday at the Village Vanguard are now fully fleshed out people you can almost hear breathing. The glasses and shot glasses that get knocked over are much more real sounding and easy to differentiate. The piano on this Evans recording, while nice, never really had that full bandwidth and dynamics of a real piano. It now has so much life you feel it recreates the experience of Being at the Vanguard in the very best seats. The whole presentation is now so energized in all dimensions and over time that the experience is just as enjoyable as being at an original event. Springsteen’s western stars has been playing a lot since it was released so I know it well, and know it only on Snomass 3.0. With Windom the experience went from listening to a polite and damped recording (save for the title track which sounds much better and was likely mixed in a different studio) to having Bruce singing in your living room. The cohesive textures are now technicolored and winging around the room. Electronic instruments suddenly reach for the my ceiling, swelling to fill all 15 feet of it. Roger Waters Amused to Death’s out of phase Qsound is more specific in placement and denser. Philip Glasses Koyanisquatssi takes on new depth an ability to hear every deep bass quiver and electronic instruments now float to the ceiling. Bass itself is expanded and refined with great new texture. Whatever aspect Ted has found to optimize, he has broken new ground and I hope he can continue development in this aspect of music decoding.
Perhaps because I’m listening to the DS at full volume, or using coincident speakers (TAD CR1’s), I’m hearing not an iteration of improvement, but an evolution that has brought my system a giant step closer to entering the acoustic space of the original event."
"OK, how do you describe this firmware?
You look at the sky and see stars. Beautiful stars. You look at the wonder and expanse above us, and are amazed at the breadth of it all. But then, you drive to the middle of Montana one August back in 1992 or so, and see the MILKY WAY for the first time. What you thought was the wonder of the universe wasn’t the complete picture at all! It is what you thought it was, but then you see the real sky for the first time. Wow, you can’t die and not experience the MILKY WAY.
Windom is like that. What you thought was the truth is all of a sudden way off the mark. No, the Midwestern sky isn’t bad at all, but the expanse of what’s been missing is extraordinary in its richness and complexity. The clarity in the room around each musical event is HUGE. Songs I’ve heard many times simply open up. You lay there looking up wondering how it can be this good. But it is.
I love the clarity and precision in Windom, not a star is blurry wherever you look. Sure, some are smaller, some are larger but none are any less beautiful to the overall image of the Milky Way.
So yes, I like the way this is going. No, my Two Doors Down CD’s are still brittle, so it won’t turn those to the best sky in any state, but if a source has any soul at all, it pulls the heavens into your living room."
"Windom has an extra layer and depth and environmental ambiance that is the setting for the music to come from within. That’s really nice to hear. It pulls YOU into that setting WITH the music. OK, it may not be “accurate” but if I were to listen to music I’d chose this. Each cut has it’s own ambiance that is enhanced or plain was missing before."