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DIGItonium · 08-13-2009, 09:00 AM

Man the DDX-814 firmware in my unit is fairly old at 1.2, while the latest update is 1.7. I tried burning a CD and DVD using Vista and Nero on XP with no such luck. I'll either get a "disc error" or the unit gets stuck rebooting itself.

As much as I like the DDX-814 features and the time such units has been out in the market, you would think they'd speed things up by now. The time it takes to switch songs and display the file listing is ridiculous.

[EDIT] I finally got the firmware update working. I used another XP-based machine to write the files to a CD-R. I dropped the disc in and got the usual "disc error" message. Under software information, the UPDATE button was finally available! After 20min. of waiting, my HU now works like a charm! MP3s load so much faster, and now I'm able to page through the file listing. Even better, subwoofer output is so much more consistent. For awhile, sub output was weak when playing MP3s and listening to some CDs. Usually bass output is weak when I first power up the unit. It's confusing, but now everything sounds better regardless of the style of music I'm listening to.

08-13-2009, 09:00 AM	#23 (permalink)
DIGItonium A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Kansas Posts: 3,800 Drives: 09 Z34-TT 6MT Rep Power: 42	Man the DDX-814 firmware in my unit is fairly old at 1.2, while the latest update is 1.7. I tried burning a CD and DVD using Vista and Nero on XP with no such luck. I'll either get a "disc error" or the unit gets stuck rebooting itself. As much as I like the DDX-814 features and the time such units has been out in the market, you would think they'd speed things up by now. The time it takes to switch songs and display the file listing is ridiculous. [EDIT] I finally got the firmware update working. I used another XP-based machine to write the files to a CD-R. I dropped the disc in and got the usual "disc error" message. Under software information, the UPDATE button was finally available! After 20min. of waiting, my HU now works like a charm! MP3s load so much faster, and now I'm able to page through the file listing. Even better, subwoofer output is so much more consistent. For awhile, sub output was weak when playing MP3s and listening to some CDs. Usually bass output is weak when I first power up the unit. It's confusing, but now everything sounds better regardless of the style of music I'm listening to. __________________ Last edited by DIGItonium; 08-13-2009 at 03:15 PM.