Devialet and Sonus Faber Day - June 7th!

[Paul @ HiFi Lounge]

UPDATE!

Hi Everyone,

With the weekend fast approaching I thought I would quickly update this post with the plans for the day, needless to say I have been playing with the Devialet range a lot since taking the brand on and particularly since the new firmware was released last week giving every unit more power + a few other tweaks, the main one though is the introduction of ‘SAM’ which stands for ‘Speaker Active Matching’. The effect of using SAM really can’t be underestimated, it really isn’t subtle and to be fair could be a real game changer in the world of HiFi. At the moment the only speakers that we have with the SAM profile already completed are the Sonus Faber Venere 2.5’s, so we will be running these in our downstairs demo room with the Devialet 200 so that we can show the difference SAM makes as it only takes around 1min to re-boot the Devialet with SAM running on and then off, I think you’ll be very surprised.

In our upstairs demo room we will be running our Devialet 250 with the Sonus Faber Guarneri Evolution’s, these speakers really are quite special, especially with vocal and acoustic, I put 1 Damian Rice track on the other night, 50 mins later I had played the whole album as I just couldn’t turn it off, very addictive. We will be running both systems with turntables hooked up so that you can hear that although everything has to go back to digital to go through the Devialet you still retain that lovely analogue sound, we will have the 200 partnered with a Rega RP6/Dynavector 10x5 and the 250 together with the Michell Orbe/Dynavector XX2. As for digital sources we will run a NAIM NDX on the 250 along with the OPPO 105 for CD playback if required and a Synology DS214 NAS Drive on the 200 controlled directly via an iPad and connected via USB, as so far this has proved the most cost effective way without loosing performance that I have found, we will also hook up a Sonos Connect so you can hear that even with Spotify’s low’ish bitrate it actually sounds pretty good. Finally we can demo AIR to show how you can use your MAC or PC to play your music and route it through a Devialet, Phew it is gong to be a busy day

Wendy will be on hand as ever to help out and keep the tea and coffee flowing, her first day as a full employee of HiFi Lounge, so if you’ve got any music you’d like to bring along please feel free, either on vinyl, memory stick or cd. Like I have said many times before, it really is impossible to fault what Devialet have achieved so hopefully you can make it in and experience for yourself.









Thanks,
Paul.