Wish List

[NickB]

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 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."

Likely yes, but guessing you don't have large DSD collection you'd like to use with Devialet. Some of us do and converting DSD discs with PS3 to DSF files was arduous and we'd like it to have been worth our time. I'm all in with Devialet spitting out new product after new product, although I hope they don't put off DSD implementation for too much longer regardless whether it's native or DoP. BTW. Just how many HDCD recordings do most Devialet users own? I had over 1500 discs and of those, only a couple dozen at most had HDCD encoding. I do remember Joni Mitchell's catalog had a few of them.

I own a few hundred HDCDs, zero DSD.  If I had DSD files I would just use J River to convert them to PCM on the fly.  I'd have to switch to Foobar to do the same with HDCDs and lose the advanced cataloging and awesome remote control of J River.

PS) HDCD encoded disks are still being released, depending on the studio and the use of the Pacific Microsonics A/D converter was involved.

I know, I know converting DSD to PCM is sacrilege, but the Devialet would do it internally anyway for it's DSP processing so what is the difference feeding it DSD and it converting to PCM or you converting to PCM prior?  I don't see them ever implementing a true DSD front to back solution, it's a complete rewrite of everything they have done to date.

As someone who does not really understand the different coding systems, and having read that DSD is a complete waste of time as a system as it gives nothing SQ wise that a good 24-96 or 24-192 flac or wav gives. Can someone explain what would be achieved by have DSD native playback apart from semantics?

Nick