02-Apr-2015, 15:31
HiFi Critic is out today with Martin Colloms' 8 page review of the Devialet 200, along with the SAM technology.
Knowing this reviewer's traits, I could have probably predicted the critical part of the review before reading it: MC places a high premium on PRAT (pace, rhythm and timing) - which, from reading many of his reviews over ten years or so, is particularly a Naim characteristic. And in his eyes it is not a Devialet characteristic, and the unit gets neither a Best Buy nor a Recommended rating.
Colloms uses a perverse scoring system, which is logarithmic, and so what started out as a 0 - 10 scale has now expanded to put some scores in the 200s, for example the Naim Unitiserve front end (237), the Townshend Allegri pre (230) and the D'Agostino power (210). Against these references he scores the Devialet 37 once SAM'ed.
I guess it is the least praising review of the Devialet ever, which is not a surprise, but it will probably be the least read, given the subscription only nature of HiFi Critic and its likely non-use by Devialet and distributors and dealers.
Knowing this reviewer's traits, I could have probably predicted the critical part of the review before reading it: MC places a high premium on PRAT (pace, rhythm and timing) - which, from reading many of his reviews over ten years or so, is particularly a Naim characteristic. And in his eyes it is not a Devialet characteristic, and the unit gets neither a Best Buy nor a Recommended rating.
Colloms uses a perverse scoring system, which is logarithmic, and so what started out as a 0 - 10 scale has now expanded to put some scores in the 200s, for example the Naim Unitiserve front end (237), the Townshend Allegri pre (230) and the D'Agostino power (210). Against these references he scores the Devialet 37 once SAM'ed.
I guess it is the least praising review of the Devialet ever, which is not a surprise, but it will probably be the least read, given the subscription only nature of HiFi Critic and its likely non-use by Devialet and distributors and dealers.
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