Turning to Ludwig Von Beethoven: Lieder Songs, from baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Jan Lisiecki (24/96 WAV, DG 4838351), as good and full as the DS-10 sounded, it could not convey every bit of the extra reverberation around Goerne's voice that disturbed me when I first heard the recording. The contrasts were obvious, with the Alto version delivering far more air, detail, life, and sense of being there. Through its Ethernet port, with the Roon Nucleus+ as the source, the DS-10 easily revealed differences in two very different remasterings of David Oistrakh's historic 1967 recording of the Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.2 with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under Kirill Kondrashinone from Alto (Tidal 24/44.1 FLAC), the other from EMG Classical (Tidal 16/44.1 FLAC). "Is this thing really sounding as good as I think it is?" "Whoa!" I exclaimed just minutes after my first listen to the DS-10 ( without the PSU-10 EVO, which wasn't here yet). I'm confident it will all be sorted by the time this review is published. The Roon and MQA fixes could not be finalized during the review period. With sequestration came an unavoidable slowdown of firmware and software development. The DS-10 arrived during the peak of Italy's first wave of COVID-19, when Gold Note's technicians were forced to work from home. After that, the DS-10, Nucleus+, and Roon synched flawlessly, and I never used mconnect again. This problem was easily remedied by removing the DS-10 from mconnect's wireless-playback settings. With Lenzi's help, I opened mconnect and discovered that even though the DS-10 was receiving a wired signal from the Nucleus+, it was shifting between the wired connection and trying to connect to my wireless network. I was assured that I was hearing MQA, that the MQA logo would be displayed when new Roon-friendly software was released, and that the sound was exactly the same as with the current firmware (footnote 1).Īnother problem was that Roon sometimes had trouble locating the DS-10. During the first of several WhatsApp sessions with Lenzi, we enlisted my MacBook Pro to first receive, by email, and then install, via the DS-10's mini-USB port, an older firmware version that worked fine with Roon, although it did not display MQA correctly. Unfortunately, the new firmware refused to shake hands with Roon. When I saw a notification to update firmware, I did so.
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