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[David A]

I think anyone can apply to be a beta tester. Just raise a ticket in Devialet help. Of course, they may have a full house which might prevent the opportunity. The main considerations are whether you want to risk compromising your personal amp, should you be issued with seriously buggy software to trial, and of course, you have to sign a gagging clause, preventing you from sharing any of what you learn (apart from with Devialet) as a result of the beta testing you do.

Personally, the risks and restrictions are too high a price to gamble, so I sit tight until an authenticated software release Comes out. We know a new release is going to be buggy anyway, but I feel sufficiently More secure that it won’t stop my system working. Just my three p’worth/cents worth.

I don't think it's as easy as that. When the CI board came out we had the option of using an "official" firmware release or a beta release which offered some additional features. If you wanted to use the beta release you had to sign up for the beta program and they had a web page where you could do that. Many of us here, including me, signed up so they have a list of owners who were willing back then to act as beta testers and I suspect most of those who signed up at that stage would still be willing to act as beta testers.

As far as I know, none of us have been offered the opportunity to act as beta testers for the current beta, and I didn't hear of any of us being offered that opportunity in relation to the last firmware release. That doesn't make me think that they're in a hurry to recruit beta testers, it makes me think they're keeping the beta testing program small and restricted.