AIR1 v AIR2 v Spark

[petrik]

It looks like no one can answer Ian's questions, in particular the one I've found unfathomable for a while, why is it so so difficult to get the USB output on the Dialog enabled?  So difficult in fact, it takes a team of French geniuses over a year to implement?  I'm baffled!

That's a good question. It's difficult to say since they don't tell so much about what is going on at the moment. I think (and hope) that they are trying to make Dialog sounding and working (UX point of view) better than AIR.. although AIR is already sounding absolutely fantastic!  Expert line customers are anyway going to compare Dialog to other streamers (Totaldac, Aurender, Melco, Linn, Bluesound, Sonos... etc)., so I assume that Devialet will release the Dialog when it's really ready.