Sc5000 Prime Audio quality (since 1.3.1 / In the future)

[Reticuli]

Agreed, like it’s smeared or something. Still a little roll-off, but there’s more going on detrimental to the sound quality from the processing than just that.

Firmware update thoughts

An evaluation of the state of the industry other than Denon Prime. I ran some RMAA tests of the Hanpins, Pioneer CDJ-900, and Gemini MDJ-1000 playing off a flash drive. All done using SPDIF out. [image] [image] For MP3s, 320 was a significant but not alarming reduction in specs for all three brands… I don’t believe that’s shown, but take my word for it. VBR was substantially worse (red line with wild high frequency swings), and they pretty much decoded MP3s of varying types similarly as f…