I empathize - I am removing my R-8 from the system for that exact reason. I could not find a firmware with the balance of what I considered to be the best sound that did not have clicks / pops / otherwise annoying or potentially damaging noises. If I can find one... it will go back in. I...

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Wonderful to hear, Mike! Thank you for letting us know how you're doing. All the very best to you and yours.

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I never tried swapping the inputs back and forth. Great tip, thanks. I really enjoyed the V3_Syn with (I think) NOS 2. I may try TDA_Syn again to see if your trick works. -cheers

I am so glad that the effort paid off in a positive way. I often find that my tastes differ from others and/or that I often can't find too many commonalities with others. I'm a firm believer in that we all have our own ears, gear, and brains (and rooms). The only (very slight) difference in...

FWIW - I gave it a shot. I swapped the MCLK / BCLK wires back to "stock" and for fun I tried R8TDA_Syn.jic from March 16, 2019. That particular firmware seems to not love my DAC at all (or the SU-1 or something) - nothing but static. I went back to my good ol' R8TDA_Asy.jsy from March 18...

Thanks for the kind words. I assume with the SU-6, you're using IIS, but just confirming. I'm swapping around inputs etc. and removing / inserting the SU-1 in my chain to see if there's a trend. I tried power cycling both. I really liked the V3S firmware - I may head back that direction...

The bass definition comes back with OS, but something about the current firmware just does not work for me in NOS or OS. There's a loss (to my ears) in width and height to the soundstage, a loss in precision of instrument and voice placement, and a new "edge" to everything. I listened to 4 or...

Did the update... Still pops when switching within PCM. I need to learn the new settings to ensure I'm comparing apples to apples, but I lost bass on NOS too. The "old" firmware was better, IMO. Oh well, I can always swap back. I'll explore the new settings, but I'd even put up with a...

Thank you very much @guzz46! I had found the firmware, but what I can't find (yet) is if the parallel firmware uses the same BCLK / MCLK wire swap as the R8_Asy group of firmwares. Anyone know? -Cheers Edited to Add - I think I figured it out. It looks like Kingwa states this on the site...

Thank you @nikko510! I think I had read a while back that the parallel was working well for some folks. I'll start with that. Greatly appreciated. Edited to ask - Is this one of the firmwares that requires the pin change?

Hi All - Long time! I've been enjoying music for the last several months without succumbing to my "need to tweak". :ksc75smile: I made a few other switches in my system, so I decided to come back to potential updates or changes for either SQ or other UI changes for my R-8. My R-8 has the V2...

@Jackula - Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. Greatly appreciated. :relaxed: Would you perhaps take a bit of time to see how you feel about the sonic signature (only in the bass region) of the James Blake song using the using the same source file, but not upsampled from...

Or revive this... https://www.head-fi.org/threads/off-topic.817000/