Finally after a few weeks, got today the X-SABRE 3 replacement. Immediately updated the firmware to V1.0.1 Build044 and all the bugs concerning Roon, MQA and DSD playback have been fixed. Here is my list of bugs reported to
@MatrixAudio:
1. Auto Sleep function from Roon works most of the time but not always.
R: FIXED with Build44
2. TIDAL Connect have a gap between songs of 4 secs when skipping tracks. It takes 4 secs for any song to start playing. Meaning there is no gapless playback
R: NOT FIXED. Bluesound devices had this same issue for months and got fixed back in June with the latest firmware.
3. When playing Tidal Connect, once pause then play again there will be a short fade in occur.
R: FIXED with Build44
4. Playing MQA, when pausing a MQA song, then replay, the song starts for about 1 sec, then stops then starts again with a fade in. All MQA songs start with a fade in, no matter if there is no change in sampling rate.
R: FIXED with Build44
5. If X-SABRE 3 is on Standby and start playing a song from Roon, will get “Failed to open the Audio Device” error message on Roon. Pressing play twice makes the error message go away.
R: FIXED with Build44
6. When playing with Roon DSD files at 2.8 or 11.2, no matter the sampling rate, if pause the song, as soon I press play again, there is a loud POP coming out of the speakers.
R: FIXED with Build44
7.- PCM (FLAC) songs get cut by about 100ms to 250ms at the beginning of the song. This only happens with some songs, not all of them and mostly with songs from Qobuz.
R: FIXED with Build44
Good job
@MatrixAudio Team for such a fast response. Now we need
@amirm getting one of these for him to measure it
On my part, the Matrix Audio X-SABRE 3 deserves without any questions the Golfer Pink Panther but because the one I have is the Soccer Pink Panther, then it's what it gets from me
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