erland;483119 Wrote: 
> My early access beta testing unit has the same hiss when my ear is less
> than 20 cm from the speaker when the device is on. I haven't noticed it
> earlier but I just checked and it's definitely there. It only happens
> when the device is on

My early hardware beta running firmware 7.5.0 r7863 (and I should note
Erland & I both have very early betas; the circuitry changed enough on
newer units that the plastic case shape had to change!) always hisses
slightly, whether "on" or "off", about as loud as Erland notes. This
seems independent of the Line In gain setting. It is much, much better
than the hiss on a couple Tivoli Model One radios I tried. The Model
One, despite all the praise it's garnered over the years, has has a hiss
that's audible from 1-2 meters, and is noticeable even when Model One is
playing music!

I think this is likely to be fixed in software, at least hissing when
"off" (and maybe that's why Erland & I see different behavior, maybe
he's running Radio firmware that fixes the off hissing); if Radio isn't
playing anything, including Line In, it should be easy for the firmware
to turn off the amp. IIRC, there was a similar enhancement to the
firmware for Boom after Boom was publicly released. I know of at least
on Radio performance enhancement that hasn't been rolled out yet
specifically because some folks like Erland & I still have the older
hardware. It could well be that the best hiss fix needs newer hardware,
and therefore won't be rolled out for another month or two (?), when all
Radio early access testers have production level hardware.


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