Mac AIR v MiND 180 v Auralic ARIES v totaldac d1 server

[GuillaumeB]

Ian - Perhaps someone should take these queries to the Guilford Audio event in October. (I doubt they will get a sensible answer though)

There's nothing wrong with AIR, well apart from the odd dropouts and the white noise problem. OK the white noise thing is pretty bad but from what I can see it's not happening to that many people.

So I don't see why they should develop a new source product or endorse anyone else's for that matter.

They'd be better off working on a mini 120 - a 60 even! Price it around £2-3k (or less even) and blow a hole in the competition's sales. Perhaps it could even include HDMI inputs so that it could be used as a home entertainment hub, connecting TV, Sky box etc.

Linn produce such a product: the Majik DSM which is their biggest selling product. It combines streamer, pre and power amps and has inputs from all my boxes (blu-ray player, Sky, Apple TV). I have one in my living room, it's rather good actually though not a patch on Devialet SQ. Now imagine that with ADH and SAM! And a decent remote for the living room.

I think this kind of product would give Devialet a much wider market, let's face it the hi-fi world is pretty small.

Guillaume