30-Nov-2016, 15:40
Just stumbled upon a comparison some members (20 people) of the German Analog-Forum.de made of the D250 Pro and D400 versus some other brands.
For the people who understand German, you can find it here: www.analog-forum.de/wbboard/board3-technik/board38-verstärker-lautsprecher-zubehör/127274-devialet-gegen-alle/
They've compared the 250 Pro to a system consisting of:
NAT SE1 (2016 model) with 211 tubes (€8.000).
Gryphon Scorpio CD Player (used as a transport) (€8.000)
Aqua Formula DAC (€12.500)
Conrad Johnson ACT II Pre (€15.000)
The Gryphon Scorpio was used connected directly to the 250 Pro using AES/EBU.
In a second session the D400 was compared to three amps and some other DAC's:
Jeff Rowland 501 (10.000,-eur)
Mark Levinson 434 (13.000,-eur)
NAT Transmitter (17.000,-eur)
DACs used:
Lampizator Der Siebener DAC (7.500,-eur)
Audio Note Kanada ANK Mentor Silver Signature (12.500,-eur)
Don't know which source was used here but again this was connected directly to the D400 using AES/EBU (so not using these DAC's analog outputs connected to the D400).
It's kind of interesting to see what others outside this forum think of Devialet. Of course the people who did these comparisons did not prefer 'our' Devialets though they did remark it would have been more fair to compare the D's to systems as a whole costing an equal amount. Conclusion the D's offer a very good price/performance ratio but they played like "DAC/pre-/poweramp all in ones".
They also compared the D250 Pro directly to the D400 and liked the sound of the D250 Pro more.
For more details see the link I posted or use Google Translate for some translation help.
For the people who understand German, you can find it here: www.analog-forum.de/wbboard/board3-technik/board38-verstärker-lautsprecher-zubehör/127274-devialet-gegen-alle/
They've compared the 250 Pro to a system consisting of:
NAT SE1 (2016 model) with 211 tubes (€8.000).
Gryphon Scorpio CD Player (used as a transport) (€8.000)
Aqua Formula DAC (€12.500)
Conrad Johnson ACT II Pre (€15.000)
The Gryphon Scorpio was used connected directly to the 250 Pro using AES/EBU.
In a second session the D400 was compared to three amps and some other DAC's:
Jeff Rowland 501 (10.000,-eur)
Mark Levinson 434 (13.000,-eur)
NAT Transmitter (17.000,-eur)
DACs used:
Lampizator Der Siebener DAC (7.500,-eur)
Audio Note Kanada ANK Mentor Silver Signature (12.500,-eur)
Don't know which source was used here but again this was connected directly to the D400 using AES/EBU (so not using these DAC's analog outputs connected to the D400).
It's kind of interesting to see what others outside this forum think of Devialet. Of course the people who did these comparisons did not prefer 'our' Devialets though they did remark it would have been more fair to compare the D's to systems as a whole costing an equal amount. Conclusion the D's offer a very good price/performance ratio but they played like "DAC/pre-/poweramp all in ones".
They also compared the D250 Pro directly to the D400 and liked the sound of the D250 Pro more.
For more details see the link I posted or use Google Translate for some translation help.
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