Devialet Chat

Got a feed from Devialet on their Facebook page,they are asking to take a few minutes and fill a survey.

Link: http://ifop3.cloudssi.com/E2/cgi-bin/ciw...vascript=1

Just did it! As always with a self induced survey, answering options very biased on the their own brand. But as I am a happy user the answering went quick.
/M

I got an email request.
I have been a very happy Devialet owner for over 3 years until the current problematic 800 update so the survey was not well timed.
Also it was all about "brand" and IMO brand is about the least important criterion when choosing what to buy. It was as disappointing as the marketing video which came out on the web site at the time of Munich show (Class A amps catch fire and all amps have been class D since the 80s amongst other inaccuracies). Pathetic, frankly.

I was, and am, impressed by the Devialet engineering and sound quality. The switch away from being engineering-led this has been very, very unfortunate IMO.

Anyway I filled it in, they now know I am interested in the technology and that "brand" is of absolutely no interest to me...

I lost the will to live about half way through.

Matt

I agree with f1eng that it seem to be a move from engineering to branding which is confirmed by the mentioned video and my recent answer from Devialet concerning my struggle using fork connectors for my speaker cables, that is a form factor issue. Not what i would like to hear. perhaps we should be happy now as 'early' adopters, which I guess we are, as focus from the company may change in the future...
May biggest concern before jumping on the D's bandwagon was just that it was French, good engineering ideas but in function not so good...
Well so far so good as both factors work very good give and take the form factor issue I am experiencing right now.

In the end I ignored design and the 'smallness' of the units, closed my eyes and absorbed the music, that did it for me.

/Mike

/M

at least they have abandoned the 'one day everyone will own a Devialet' motto. Even the CEO said they were moving away from it.

(27-Jun-2014, 18:31)Jwg1749 Wrote: [ -> ]I lost the will to live about half way through.

Matt

I know what you mean I think perhaps it wasn't the best translation from French to English ever.. There were a few thought provoking questions but they didn't ask about the things I really wanted to tell them. Yes, I think the product is superb but there are several improvements they could make maybe even fairly easily including adding UPnP support, adding functionality to the remote app so that it can do everything the physical remote does, stopping the irritating broadcast 5 times per second to every device on the same network, make the 'disable remote app' option actually do what it says etc

Yes I also struggled a little with the focus of this survey. It didn't really seem to be very interested in my views about the SOUND QUALITY!!!

I am only interested in sound quality, everything else is a bonus. Granted the Devialet is highly configurable and has some amazing stuff going on under its bonnet. It's a very nice looking device too. Love the remote etc.

I also thought that there was an odd mix of brands listed in the survey. At one point I was being asked to score the Devialet against Linn.

But there was never anything about the sound... it's all about the sound, stupid!

All in all I came away thinking that it was a bit of a missed opportunity on Devialet's part. They could have asked us so much more about real audiophile stuff. Hey they could have asked us about our speakers!!!

Guillaume

(28-Jun-2014, 10:50)GuillaumeB Wrote: [ -> ]Yes I also struggled a little with the focus of this survey. It didn't really seem to be very interested in my views about the SOUND QUALITY!!!

I am only interested in sound quality, everything else is a bonus. Granted the Devialet is highly configurable and has some amazing stuff going on under its bonnet. It's a very nice looking device too. Love the remote etc.

I also thought that there was an odd mix of brands listed in the survey. At one point I was being asked to score the Devialet against Linn.

But there was never anything about the sound... it's all about the sound, stupid!

All in all I came away thinking that it was a bit of a missed opportunity on Devialet's part. They could have asked us so much more about real audiophile stuff. Hey they could have asked us about our speakers!!!

Guillaume

I had to add Sound Quality as "other" on "why I chose Devialet" !...

Funny indeed.

(28-Jun-2014, 11:30)Kunter Wrote: [ -> ]

(28-Jun-2014, 10:50)GuillaumeB Wrote: [ -> ]Yes I also struggled a little with the focus of this survey. It didn't really seem to be very interested in my views about the SOUND QUALITY!!!

I am only interested in sound quality, everything else is a bonus. Granted the Devialet is highly configurable and has some amazing stuff going on under its bonnet. It's a very nice looking device too. Love the remote etc.

I also thought that there was an odd mix of brands listed in the survey. At one point I was being asked to score the Devialet against Linn.

But there was never anything about the sound... it's all about the sound, stupid!

All in all I came away thinking that it was a bit of a missed opportunity on Devialet's part. They could have asked us so much more about real audiophile stuff. Hey they could have asked us about our speakers!!!

Guillaume

I had to add Sound Quality as "other" on "why I chose Devialet" !...

Funny indeed.

That's exactly what I did Kunter... (the mind boggles...)

Guillaume