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My Snow Leopard vs Lion Comparison

Posted by greg7 on September 11, 2011 at 08:07:25:
I (foolishly) installed Lion over Snow Leopard on my 2011 Macbook Pro when the free upgrade became available for download at Apple's App Store without waiting for feedback and opinions.

I immediately noticed a sharper, brighter, more "hi fi" presentation with Lion.

I deleted Lion and went back to Snow Leopard yesterday.

The A-B-A result: Snow Leopard is preferable for me. It's more laid back and natural sounding without detriment to resolution and pace. Resolution is actually subjectively better with Snow Leopard (e.g., longer decays, more ambient information, larger soundstage). This may be the result of Snow Leopard supporting integer- and Hog modes with my DAC (Wavelength Proton).

One other (unrelated) thing I did notice with Snow Leopard is that it's very slightly slower and "clunkier" in operation than Lion