nothingman
Senior Member
Based on my research on miniDSP user group, firmware versions 1.1.11, 1.1.12 and 1.1.13 had the ability to attenuate the signal at both the input and output stage. The input stage attenuation was meant to deal with intersampling peaks that can cause digital clipping with some tracks. I guess there were some isolated user problems with these versions so they removed this function in 1.1.14 until they understand the problem better. My 1.1.13 version works fine so I am sticking with it for now.
Right. There were several documented cases of SHDs producing full-blast white noise at random, and at least one user posted pictures of their Dynaudio driver blown apart. miniDSP tried to identify and fix the problem but they couldn’t so they reversed course with 1.1.14. They say they’ll come back to the ASRC thing later but who knows when.
They have also twice (Example 1 — Example 2) said that ”all EQ” is happening in a 40bit floating point domain now but when asked directly on their forums to elaborate they didn‘t respond (par for the course for them — they disappear off their own forum for weeks/months at a time, and the current interval is at 4 weeks). Their comment doesn’t make a ton of sense to those of us reading the hardware spec sheets which suggest 32bit max, which is what SHD has previously operated at. Also, does “all EQ” mean Dirac too or just PEQ? No one knows.