Devialet Dialog

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I strikes me that any cheap but sensibly made streemer would sound excellent if it utilised AIR eathernet, I mean anything! My cheap miulti purpose PC with WASAPI is superb, much better than a very expesive CD player. Have Devialet missed a trick here? Or is AIR compatibility coming? It must already more of less have it if it can stream wirelessly to the Phantom thing? Of am I missing the point? Frustrating for me, as I've been thinking for a while that any user friendly front end that could actually use AIR Ethernet would sould excellent without needing to cost £thousands?

If the Dialog unit is Linux based (which I hope it is) I'd guess they start with USB because is is easy. ALSA support for XMOS is known to be very good. Porting AIR code to Linux, or maybe going back to the original where AIR was in fact a file player, is a rather big task. If this is what Devialet is hinting at in their presentation I'll be happy.
Now we really need a convolution engine inside the amps/Phantoms so all the sources Dialog promises can be run through the same room correction