(30-May-2014, 00:27)ZincAlloy Wrote: 1. UPnP streaming, now that we have an Ethernet port - no reason why it can't be done?
2. An iOS control app, like ipeng, that allows me to control the Devialet and access my library from the same app. Currently have to flip between ipeng and the Devialet iOS app to do this.
3. Direct playback from USB HD - remove NAS, router and all the other stuff from playback chain that we need to manage.
4. DSD support - not that I've actually managed to find a DSD album that I want to buy, mind you! But good for resale value, if nothing else.
5. AIR for Linux NAS.
Appreciate that most of the above see mutually exclusive, but wanted to get them all down!
I'm sorry 1,2,3 are bad ideas. Leave all the processing power of the Devialet for doing DSP and future more advanced DSPing. Move those 1,2 and 3 features into the Dialog. Put the Dialog right beside your router to hide the extra box away.
I really think any DSD implementation would just end up as a conversion to the internal PCM format for DSP processing anyway, so what's the point? Just have one of the many capable software programs decode DSD and send it PCM to the Devialet. Having the Devialet capable of talking DSD from beginning to the end would be a major rewrite.
5 would be a nice addition for the many NAS owners out there.
Personally, I'd like to see HDCD decoding added along with a more advanced EQ functionality. Sound quality improvements are alway welcome as well.
