LifeisinaBlink
New Head-Fier
Hello!
I have been a lurker for a couple of years on this forum and truly appreciate the wealth and depth of knowledge that members of this community impart. In the last 2.5 years, I went from having an old pair of Sony 7506 headphones and my computer to over a dozen dacs, 40 headphones, and 8 amplifiers (COVID allowed my collection to bloom a little too much). I absolutely love checking out gear being recommended on here; it's been a wonderful hobby to get into.
I have started to grow a taste for older equipment (ESS dacs are starting to bore me and AKM sounds too dry to me). Recently, I was reading up on HRT and how their DACs were solid and well-built. I was able to grab the HeadStreamer model off of Ebay for fairly cheap and I love the way it sounds. Unfortunately, it has a bit of skipping/popping when playing music, so I visited the still functioning site (although it seems like HRT is defunct) in hopes of finding firmware. The site does contain their updater program ("UpStream"), but it no longer contains any firmware for the HeadStreamer. Using the "USBView" program from their site, I see that my unit is under firmware 1.5. From what I have been able to gather from extremely old posts on here, the last update might have been 1.8.
Question: I know this is an extreme long shot, but does anyone on here have some of the later .bin files needed to update the HeadStreamer?
I appreciate your time!
I have been a lurker for a couple of years on this forum and truly appreciate the wealth and depth of knowledge that members of this community impart. In the last 2.5 years, I went from having an old pair of Sony 7506 headphones and my computer to over a dozen dacs, 40 headphones, and 8 amplifiers (COVID allowed my collection to bloom a little too much). I absolutely love checking out gear being recommended on here; it's been a wonderful hobby to get into.
I have started to grow a taste for older equipment (ESS dacs are starting to bore me and AKM sounds too dry to me). Recently, I was reading up on HRT and how their DACs were solid and well-built. I was able to grab the HeadStreamer model off of Ebay for fairly cheap and I love the way it sounds. Unfortunately, it has a bit of skipping/popping when playing music, so I visited the still functioning site (although it seems like HRT is defunct) in hopes of finding firmware. The site does contain their updater program ("UpStream"), but it no longer contains any firmware for the HeadStreamer. Using the "USBView" program from their site, I see that my unit is under firmware 1.5. From what I have been able to gather from extremely old posts on here, the last update might have been 1.8.
Question: I know this is an extreme long shot, but does anyone on here have some of the later .bin files needed to update the HeadStreamer?
I appreciate your time!
