Optical in only up to 96kHz

[Antoine]

My recollection (Frank, f1eng, if he reads this will correct me if I am wrong) at the recent Devialet/Oxford Audio Consultant day was that Mathieu Pernod, their lead engineer, said that Devialet had decided to move from 24/192 to 24/96 because 24/192 had proved to be buggy, and not because 24/96 saved lots of money compared with 24/192.

I'm sure that Devialet will have checked whether doing this denied, or prospectively might deny, users access to a great deal of music encoded at 24/192 or presumably 24/176. As far as I can see Qobuz encodes at a maximum 24/96. HD Tracks does have offerings at 24/192 but, as far as I can see, always give you the 24/96 alternative.

In addition, is 24/192 a standard the industry might move to - which will happen only if it is financially viable, is supported by enough hardware and (hopefully but not necessarily) if it matters. There are lots of web articles suggesting that 24/192 is a waste of time and space, for example:
http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

So my take on it, at least at present, is to forget 24/192 unless you already have lots of music encoded that way.

You make it sound as if Devialet doesn't support 24/192 but of course the coax inputs still accept that bit rate/sample freq.

BTW. Wikipedia learns me that Toslink was "Originally limited to 48 kHz at 20 bits. Extended to support all modern formats (Depending on manufacture and specification)". So Devialet probably did choose cheap and crappy transceivers, especially if and when it used to work in the D-Premier.

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Maybe I have to look for sample rate converter software?

That, or buy a optical-coax adapter.