Devialet predictions for 2018 (The 2018 Devialet Almanac)

[Hifi_swlon]

2nd quarters over too. Guess any Oxford Audio event revelations may make q3 more interesting.

Looks like one of guillaume’s will turn out to be close.

Which one?

Guillaume

Slightly the wrong direction, but I was thinking this one was pretty close, down to the Q:

“- a new PRO model below the 130 PRO will appear later this year, possibly Q3“

[Confused]

It's time for the Q3 update, time flies eh, summer has gone, soon be time for Christmas etc. ... Well, not quite, it is still Q3 for the rest of the day, but I doubt much will happen on a Sunday afternoon, so I think I'm safe writing this today. In fact, not much has happened for the entirety of Q3. The announcement of the 140 Pro and 210 Pro Dual Mono did sneak in right at the cusp of Q3, as did the news that the original Expert range would not be receiving any further updates. Since then, the Pro upgrade scheme re-started in July. This was not a surprise, as it had been widely known that Devialet planned to restart the scheme in the Summer, although the more cynical amongst us might say it was a surprise that Devialet did what they said they were going to do and it happened on time.

The Pro CI models had a firmware update in July. (13.0.0 + DOS 2.2.2) Nothing too exciting here, mainly a bit of bug fixing and stability improvements, but at least it proved to be stable for most, and it has lost it's "beta" designation.

So not much to report. Unless I've missed something, then that's about it, a firmware update for the Pro, and not much happening with the Phantom or anything else. In fact, for me this is the big news. At Munich and latterly at the OAC event, we heard news of the new "Core Team" and Expert "Extended Team". This news was widely welcomed and considered genuinely good news. But the Q3 update news has to be that we have seen very little evidence of what this team is doing, and in particular, the pledge to improve communications has so far produced nothing other than the core infinity logs being closed to comments and the occasional email telling me to travel to the edge of infra-bass and get physical with the Phantom. So no change there really. OK, lets be optimistic, maybe things will perk up in Q4. I have to say though, it has been reported that Devialet now has 500 personnel, so what are they doing? Is it actually possible to have this many folk working on a commercial enterprise with no sign that they are doing anything? Maybe they will surprise us soon, in the past Devialet announcements have typically come out of nowhere as a complete surprise, so you never know what might be just around the corner.

It's a bit late for predictions now, but we do know there was a working demo of CI RAAT at Munich back in March, so surely we will see this arrive in Q4? This thread has been so dull this year that I feel compelled to predict that RAAT will indeed arrive in Q4, together with something totally unexpected that will arrive as a total surprise. All of 2018 can't be that dull, can it?

[K4680]

It's time for the Q3 update, time flies eh, summer has gone, soon be time for Christmas etc. ...  Well, not quite, it is still Q3 for the rest of the day, but I doubt much will happen on a Sunday afternoon, so I think I'm safe writing this today.  In fact, not much has happened for the entirety of Q3.  The announcement of the 140 Pro and 210 Pro Dual Mono did sneak in right at the cusp of Q3, as did the news that the original Expert range would not be receiving any further updates.  Since then, the Pro upgrade scheme re-started in July.  This was not a surprise, as it had been widely known that Devialet planned to restart the scheme in the Summer, although the more cynical amongst us might say it was a surprise that Devialet did what they said they were going to do and it happened on time.

The Pro CI models had a firmware update in July. (13.0.0 + DOS 2.2.2)  Nothing too exciting here, mainly a bit of bug fixing and stability improvements, but at least it proved to be stable for most, and it has lost it's "beta" designation.

So not much to report.  Unless I've missed something, then that's about it, a firmware update for the Pro, and not much happening with the Phantom or anything else.  In fact, for me this is the big news.  At Munich and latterly at the OAC event, we heard news of the new "Core Team" and Expert "Extended Team".  This news was widely welcomed and considered genuinely good news.  But the Q3 update news has to be that we have seen very little evidence of what this team is doing, and in particular, the pledge to improve communications has so far produced nothing other than the core infinity logs being closed to comments and the occasional email telling me to travel to the edge of infra-bass and get physical with the Phantom.  So no change there really.  OK, lets be optimistic, maybe things will perk up in Q4.  I have to say though, it has been reported that Devialet now has 500 personnel, so what are they doing?  Is it actually possible to have this many folk working on a commercial enterprise with no sign that they are doing anything?  Maybe they will surprise us soon, in the past Devialet announcements have typically come out of nowhere as a complete surprise, so you never know what might be just around the corner.

It's a bit late for predictions now, but we do know there was a working demo of CI RAAT at Munich back in March, so surely we will see this arrive in Q4?  This thread has been so dull this year that I feel compelled to predict that RAAT will indeed arrive in Q4, together with something totally unexpected that will arrive as a total surprise.  All of 2018 can't be that dull, can it?

Hi Confused, 1++

[Hifi_swlon]

No news is normally good news.

Although in this case....

[baddog]

...  I have to say though, it has been reported that Devialet now has 500 personnel, so what are they doing?  Is it actually possible to have this many folk working on a commercial enterprise with no sign that they are doing anything?  ...

Now that is funny in so many ways! Unrelated to Devialet, I can attest to the fact that yes, it is possible to have a >500 member team with no signs that they are actually doing anything of value.

[Hifi_swlon]

...  I have to say though, it has been reported that Devialet now has 500 personnel, so what are they doing?  Is it actually possible to have this many folk working on a commercial enterprise with no sign that they are doing anything?  ...

Now that is funny in so many ways! Unrelated to Devialet, I can attest to the fact that yes, it is possible to have a >500 member team with no signs that they are actually doing anything of value.

Do you mean in the sense that it’s an illusion and they’ll be doing a lot that just hasn’t come to light yet, or that it’s easy to have a poorly run team of 500 burning resources and yet achieving nothing?

[Soniclife]

...  I have to say though, it has been reported that Devialet now has 500 personnel, so what are they doing?  Is it actually possible to have this many folk working on a commercial enterprise with no sign that they are doing anything?  ...

Now that is funny in so many ways! Unrelated to Devialet, I can attest to the fact that yes, it is possible to have a >500 member team with no signs that they are actually doing anything of value.

Do you mean in the sense that it’s an illusion and they’ll be doing a lot that just hasn’t come to light yet, or that it’s easy to have a poorly run team of 500 burning resources and yet achieving nothing?

I can personally attest that badly run, producing nothing of value for years companies exist, truly amazing but true.

There is a study that showed that promoting people at random was as good as the normal selection process, seems like it's onto something.

[baddog]

...  I have to say though, it has been reported that Devialet now has 500 personnel, so what are they doing?  Is it actually possible to have this many folk working on a commercial enterprise with no sign that they are doing anything?  ...

Now that is funny in so many ways! Unrelated to Devialet, I can attest to the fact that yes, it is possible to have a >500 member team with no signs that they are actually doing anything of value.

Do you mean in the sense that it’s an illusion and they’ll be doing a lot that just hasn’t come to light yet, or that it’s easy to have a poorly run team of 500 burning resources and yet achieving nothing?

The latter - but not referring to Devialet.

[markush]

Sad to see that even with the new Expert team in place and after some more promises made at High End in Munich, there are not just any of the long awaited updates / new features etc but even not a single news update or log book post about what is going on etc.
They claimed they finally realized what it needs to be done to regain trust of customers etc - well than why acting just the opposite way?

[Baz72]

Sad to see that even with the new Expert team in place and after some more promises made at High End in Munich, there are not just any of the long awaited updates / new features etc but even not a single news update or log book post about what is going on etc.
They claimed they finally realized what it needs to be done to regain trust of customers etc - well than why acting just the opposite way?

There's a countdown clock on the Devialet website so there must be something about to happen (in three days!)