Better sound after activation

[davidsarinelli]

My buddy Poul bought the XXhighend player a couple of days ago, and he immidiately talked about improvements after activating the player.

Well after paying him a visit I could also hear what he meant - the overall sound quality of his system had improved quite a bit since last time I visited him.

So, after comming home I fired up my system and paid for the activation code, as I HAD to find out if this was really true. After some minor problems the activation code arrived, and while listening to Diana Krall - Live in Paris "Love being here with you", I activated the XXhighend player. I thereafter immidiately restarted the player and played the same song as before activation.

And was Poul so ever fucking right - much more inner detail, more air, better presence and higher sence of precision - everyting sounded much more natural than before activation. Next track was Boogie Soliterre - Simple Things "Superficial" and the story repeated itself: more natural, involving and coherent.

I'm just saying: What the F*** is going on? has anyone experienced something similar?

[PeterSt]

uhhm ... This is quite some commercial !

Yes, I can imagine this. Well, anno December 2007 I can.
At the time I started the development of this I would never have thought that the things which cause this would be able to make a difference. Today I can predict it.

Not that I ever thought about that what's in there to cause the demo to be a demo sounding different. So of course it is unintentional, but also kind of unavoidable.

So what can I say ? when you Activate the sound is getting better ?


Thank you very much for pointing this out.
Peter

[davidsarinelli]

To me it is just plain crazy - the difference is not subte, so we concluded that it had to be intentional, thus it is quite the surprise to hear that it isn't!

If you can find something that could cause this difference I would like to hear more about it.

Damn, I love this player.

What scheme should be best - I have tried 1 and 3, and the latter sounds best in my system?

Best regards,
David

[PeterSt]

Hi David,

Well, it would hardly be a "commercial" thing to handout a player of which I think it is the best around, with degraded SQ to start with !
The funny thing may be that even when so (degraded SQ in demo mode) apparantly people like you still think it's okay, or anyway good enough to pay for un-demoing it.
So the commercial now is : it will only get better ! 

If you can find something that could cause this difference I would like to hear more about it.

Oh, but I already know it, and that much that I don't even need to try it myself to believe you. But as said, it is unintentional because at the time of creating it I did not know it at all, nor could I expect it for the life of me.
But please let it be the secret of this player, and let it be a guide for further future improvements. Btw, that these things matter (whatever that is ) I only know myself for a few weeks.

There's more to come. I promise.
Peter


PS: I use Scheme-3 as well. Scheme-1 is (a lot) more digital, but with more (too much in fact) dynamics as a bonus.