D200/D400 on Computer Audiophile

[GuillaumeB]

I thought the review was not thorough at all. Pretty disappointing really seeing he supposedly had it for so long.

That is my thoughts too. The text appears to be more or less unfinished, as if he was in a hurry. At least compared to the Aries review or the Berkeley mentioned further up by Guillaume. Seems the Aries is not a good match for the Devialet amps?

Indeed, and in the review it states "during most of the review period I used the Auralic Aries as the music source component".   Thus he is not testing Devialet AIR, which is how the amp is designed to be used with digital material, furthermore, it is reckoned that the Devialet sounds better via AIR than an Aries.  So all a bit pointlless in many ways.

Yup very good point. What surprises me is that he didn't hear enough of a difference between the Aries and AIR to make a comment. I'm not saying that the Devialet sounds bad with the Aries, far from it! But AIR is qualitatively better, I'm convinced of this having had an Aries in my system for a couple of weeks. It would have been interesting if he had compared it to some of his other sources, some of which he has reviewed in past months.

To be fair he says "via wired Ethernet Devialet AIR works awesome" but it doesn't really say anything about how it compares to other digital input modes.

Guillaume