02-Dec-2015, 15:01
(30-Nov-2015, 17:35)hrky_zmaj Wrote:(30-Nov-2015, 16:01)Hifi_swlon Wrote: It definitely looks nicer in the flesh (in the video) than in the stills.
Still not to my taste - personally I think they nailed it with the dark chrome - but it doesn't look as bad as I thought. Maybe they couldn't work out a way to hide the copper base so decided to make a feature of it.
After all the talk in other posts here about the speaker terminals not being very good(?), it looks like they kept the same ones?
After all, D900 is just 29.900 and to keep expenses lower they have to put 4x1$ worth of Chinese cast speaker terminals.
Hrky
I think there will really be a D900 (a revised D800) with a bit of a premium above the current €22,900 price. But not with a €29,900 price as applies to the limited edition.
And with a retrofit for D800 owners.
After all, how can Devialet produce 100 "better" amplifiers and then fail to drip it down to at least the D800 and, with their "no obsolescence" guarantee, fail to offer a retrofit. Can you imagine them demonstrating a "worse" amplifier if that is what the current D800 is?
So maybe you just need to wait a while (Munich 2016) and then you can hopefully have the unit without copper but with the $1 speaker terminals, which i am sure Devialet would have changed if they thought the current ones are deficient.
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