10-Dec-2016, 13:20
Salut mes amis! This is my first post on Devialet chat as I never had any Devialet gear to chat about. As of a week and a half ago the good people from Oxford Audio sourced and installed my rand new Devialet Pro 250. To say that it is a quantum leap in what I have owned and listened to before would be an understatement. The depth, transparency, balance and clarity is mind blowing.
I am probably getting a little ahead of myself as it is only step one of the journey. I had looked at other gear, primarily Naim, who also produce wonderful products, but I needed some thing to link up with my AV gear, not consist of a pile of boxes and get some sympathy from my wife. This the Devialet achieves in spades.
However, am playing it through twenty year old Castle Harlechs and whatever wiring came with it at the time, probably Chord. Although I do have a large collection of CDs and vinyl (somewhere) I am sticking to Tidal at the moment. I can get access to remasters of almost everything I like as well as new stuff as and when it arrives. I do have a NAS (Synology) and have ripped some stuff in WAV format. At the moment am stuck to playing My Favourites in random (not so random at times with Tidal) and album after album. It is truly transfixing and I am nowhere near casual acceptance or any form of disappointment with what I am hearing.
If I have a question, which I do, it is which speakers and interconnects would be worth looking at. Forget anything more expensive than the 250 itself?
I am probably getting a little ahead of myself as it is only step one of the journey. I had looked at other gear, primarily Naim, who also produce wonderful products, but I needed some thing to link up with my AV gear, not consist of a pile of boxes and get some sympathy from my wife. This the Devialet achieves in spades.
However, am playing it through twenty year old Castle Harlechs and whatever wiring came with it at the time, probably Chord. Although I do have a large collection of CDs and vinyl (somewhere) I am sticking to Tidal at the moment. I can get access to remasters of almost everything I like as well as new stuff as and when it arrives. I do have a NAS (Synology) and have ripped some stuff in WAV format. At the moment am stuck to playing My Favourites in random (not so random at times with Tidal) and album after album. It is truly transfixing and I am nowhere near casual acceptance or any form of disappointment with what I am hearing.
If I have a question, which I do, it is which speakers and interconnects would be worth looking at. Forget anything more expensive than the 250 itself?
