Note: there is a small quirk in the Pro firmware that is not critical and will be fixed in the next regular update. In the Global Level Meter screen the analog input level meters react on the new Hor. Meter setting (they should not), and will show the Post-FX level when Pre-FX or Dual has been selected. This meter should display the highest level of Pre and Post as one bar instead, so that reductions via the digital EQ can not cause unnoticed overloads. When Post-FX is selected the meters still behave like that.

Note 2: The new Dual Pre/Post level meters might cause some confusion on the analog input at higher sample rates. As mentioned in the manual the meters include a digital low pass of around 40 kHz to show meaningful audio levels. At sample rates above 192 kHz the out-of-band high frequency noise will otherwise show up as a constant level, rendering the lower area of the meters unusable.

This is now the case when selecting Pre-FX or Dual, as the level is taken before the whole digital processing. This is a really nice feature in Dual meter mode as you can see high frequency stuff up to more than 180 kHz in the thinner pre meter, while the post meter continues to show the relevant stuff in the audio area.

Thanks a lot for this feature! Unfortunately PEQ Preset No. and Name get's lost after a restart of the DAC and shows always "EQ Preset select: Manual". Or do I miss something?

The Dark Mode is sometimes also interrupted when unplugging phones even when that does not change the output (eg. Mute Line - Toggle X).
However, the Dark Mode is sometimes not interrupted when unplugging phones when that changes the output (eg. Mute Line vs. Phones).

...is the Pre-FX meters maxing out a good or bad thing?

If the Post-FX meters show peaks no higher than 0, there is no problem. If the Post-FX meters show OVR (red), you should reduce the volume.

However, that cannot simply be deduced from the Pre-FX meters.

For the DAC, using only the Pre-FX meters, the only way to see if the Post-FX signal peaks above 0 dB is seeing the volume setting in the Dark Volume top screen turn red. Maybe it is possible to turn the volume setting in the bottom bar red in case of post-FX signal peaks above 0 dB.

My DAC behaves the same way.

As you see (and enjoy) operating the unit and the accompanying feature set is still evolving, partly on our own ideas/lists, partly on the very valuable user feedback. The DAC is extracted from the Pro, where this button switches operation over the outputs. With the DAC we had to wait until everything is mature and final enough so we could be sure the button will not get a different, more useful function (remember, Mute is available in different places and directly on the remote). But now we were sure, and thus added it.

Nice feedback so far in this thread, once again thanks all for contributing!

Excellent work, congratulations. I wanted to have the ability to display the same large font size as db  well as sampling on one screen. When you are at a listening distance using speakers [about 2.5-3 m], the sampling is not visible

Thanks a lot for that nice update!
The dual horizontal meter is very clever and useful and so is the New Details Top screen! And amber colour is nice. Thanks!

The possibility to have DAC filters and crossfeed settings on the Remap Key is nice; but because of the 4 buttons only on the remote, I would have preferred to have "Toggle DAC filter" and "Toggle crossfeed parameter", but I understand that some people prefer the possibility to switch directly between the 2 settings they want to compare.

Nevertheless, thanks a lot for all of these improvements! The dual horizontal meter will always be activated on mine.

This, or map some functions to bass and treble encoders.

I would like to see the possibility of remapping bass or treble rotation knob to adjust crossfeed. Remapping the 4 buttons for this is unintuitive.

I was too, and for my need, the new detailed top screen does the job: at a glance you have volume, sample rate, hardware level, source, EQ, B/T, Loudness and crossfeed. What do you miss?

Balance is on the VOL screen. DA filter is not critical. The reason for the details screen is easily explained. There were customers that touched button 1 on the DAC remote and later complained about limited stage width, low instrument separation etc, not aware they had changed the unit to mono operation (the main reason we added Mono indication also to the status bar). Others complain about Bass and Treble not being aware these were adjusted as such. Someone had M/S Proc. on and didn't manage to find the reason for the strange unbalanced representation (looking in the wrong channel's menu).

Therefore all DSP FX are now listed in the DAC's Details screen, including M/S Proc and Polarity (the names will be shorted automatically when space is no longer sufficient - try it!).

DA filters are not FX and absolutely not critical like my other examples.

While using the Dark Volume Details top screen, changing the volume and bass and treble using the encoders is displayed using the Volume/B/T screen. The manual (v1.6 p. 28) does not mention this difference compared to the regular Dark Volume top screen.

I like the current setup, where you can see the VU meter when you change the volume.

That is the case already. The option 'Show Vol Screen' off would make the Details screen react like the Dark Volume Screen.

This is a great firmware update. Thanks. It is exciting to see the evolution. I have one thought about the next iteration. When I remap polarity to a remote key, it will cycle between left and right when the key is pressed. It would be very useful if it would cycle between off, both, left, right. I hope this might be possible for the next release.

You can select the desired mode. If you manually select Polarity Left in the I/O menu, the remote button will switch between Polarity Left and Polarity Right (that's what you did). IMHO nobody needs that on a remote. Set Polarity in the I/O menu to Off or Both and the remote will switch Polarity only.

I like the Dark volume and Details mode to be discrete too, I'm saying that the screen would look better if the fonts where white and backlight would automatically dim, it would make the black background look deeper black and less grayish.

since I updated the firmware to V28, the relays on the ADI2-DAC click about 10 times each time it is powered on.
Anyone knows what could have caused this?

I had this issue when using it with a bad power supply. Once I switched to the official one the problem disappeared.
So it may not be firmware related.

It will be grate if the power light turn off when shutdown, instead of the red light.