I own a D200 for nearly a year, but I've been working with the D's from the very beginning (D'Premier). I know exactly the first time the D'Premier auditioned in front of me in the shop. Its appearance was kind of exotic, but in terms of SQ it didn't convince me at all. It sounded precise but cold and got no emotion in its musical presentation.
Several months went by and then came a firmware-update (don't recall which one exactly) and from that moment on I was lost. What an impressive refinement. I was puzzled. How can they (D's company) touch in this musicality, smoothness, easing only by updating the software. I had no clue at that time but I loved it from that moment on.
But still in these days it wasn't that easy to get the D's singing/charming. The whole system had to be designed around the D's to reveal its magic. It took some time...every time.
Nowadays things have changed quiet a bit, but one can ever make such big mistakes when composing a system around a Devialet. To do it right you have to e.g. feed it right (best you have), no glas to put it on, never-ever, it needs a decent powercable, don't experiment with silver if it's not of the purest, Switch off every input in the configurator if you don't need it for presentation (get yourself several configcards), NO DPM-don't! You just have to choose the right components around the D's. All this little things (and there are plenty of others) sum up and if you do them all wrong you get a naughty little piggy messing around performing the all hated "digital sound".
But doing it all right you get as close to the real thing as possible. And at this state of developing I can just imagine where the D's performance will reach to, because we are in the middle of its refinement. The D's company has done wrong some significant things due to their commercial-lifestyle-appearance or just saving bucks but looking into tweakers's corner and merge own ideas we can fix some/all off them...and in the meantime I lap up every note it sends to me thru my speakers. It's marvelous.
gui.
Several months went by and then came a firmware-update (don't recall which one exactly) and from that moment on I was lost. What an impressive refinement. I was puzzled. How can they (D's company) touch in this musicality, smoothness, easing only by updating the software. I had no clue at that time but I loved it from that moment on.
But still in these days it wasn't that easy to get the D's singing/charming. The whole system had to be designed around the D's to reveal its magic. It took some time...every time.
Nowadays things have changed quiet a bit, but one can ever make such big mistakes when composing a system around a Devialet. To do it right you have to e.g. feed it right (best you have), no glas to put it on, never-ever, it needs a decent powercable, don't experiment with silver if it's not of the purest, Switch off every input in the configurator if you don't need it for presentation (get yourself several configcards), NO DPM-don't! You just have to choose the right components around the D's. All this little things (and there are plenty of others) sum up and if you do them all wrong you get a naughty little piggy messing around performing the all hated "digital sound".
But doing it all right you get as close to the real thing as possible. And at this state of developing I can just imagine where the D's performance will reach to, because we are in the middle of its refinement. The D's company has done wrong some significant things due to their commercial-lifestyle-appearance or just saving bucks but looking into tweakers's corner and merge own ideas we can fix some/all off them...and in the meantime I lap up every note it sends to me thru my speakers. It's marvelous.
gui.
"Oh, you can buy the other. But then it is a cost intensive learning process"
berlin
