Received similar email for Premier/Le800, I am very happy with this offer.
As you probably know, Devialet engineers have achieved a new milestone in audiophile history.
Via a major hardware and software Upgrade, performance at all power levels has been significantly improved:
• New motherboard with all Devialet key-technology components.
• New Class-A amp.
• New Magic Wire® (Digital-Analog conversion).
• New power supply.
• New Class-D amp.
• New architecture, Devialet OS ready.
• New firmware.
• New Devialet OS board, a value of € 1 500 , which will be offered to you for free as soon as it is available in 2017.
To show our appreciation for your trust, we have reserved a special Expert Pro Upgrade offer exclusively to Expert Le 800 recent owners:
€ 3 995 instead of € 5 990
To benefit from this price, order from our online store between Sept. 15th and Dec. 25th 2016 and enter your personal code at the checkout:
(06-Sep-2016, 14:28)octaviars Wrote: [ -> ] (06-Sep-2016, 13:33)MightyMart Wrote: [ -> ] (06-Sep-2016, 12:29)G51 Wrote: [ -> ]All brand new with new exterior chassis ?
Yes, that is correct. I called them to make sure this information was correct and they confirmed it.
Hopefully this will bring down the upgrade time quite a bit.
That was new to me, that I missed completely and I also were in contact with them about the upgrade process.
Océane Turpin at Devialet support tell me this today:
The whole electronics change, only the case stays the same. Even the serial number changes.
(06-Sep-2016, 15:43)Ibexman Wrote: [ -> ] (06-Sep-2016, 14:28)octaviars Wrote: [ -> ] (06-Sep-2016, 13:33)MightyMart Wrote: [ -> ]Yes, that is correct. I called them to make sure this information was correct and they confirmed it.
Hopefully this will bring down the upgrade time quite a bit.
That was new to me, that I missed completely and I also were in contact with them about the upgrade process.
Océane Turpin at Devialet support tell me this today:
The whole electronics change, only the case stays the same. Even the serial number changes.
To me it would be strange if the chassi were also changed if they are the same in the Expert and Expert PRO, why would they do that without a reson?
(06-Sep-2016, 17:28)octaviars Wrote: [ -> ] (06-Sep-2016, 15:43)Ibexman Wrote: [ -> ] (06-Sep-2016, 14:28)octaviars Wrote: [ -> ]That was new to me, that I missed completely and I also were in contact with them about the upgrade process.
Océane Turpin at Devialet support tell me this today:
The whole electronics change, only the case stays the same. Even the serial number changes.
To me it would be strange if the chassi were also changed if they are the same in the Expert and Expert PRO, why would they do that without a reson?
The reason could be that it is probably more labor intensive and more expensive to retrofit existing chassis with new electronics instead of just producing new units in the factory.
I suppose it would be a lot easier for them to just swap the units over and deal with changing the electronics later in their own time. But then what about any case blemishes etc - that would cost them money as they wouldn't be able to use them.
Also, if they were doing a swap, they could just let you collect your new one from a dealer and hand in your old one, and save the two week wait.
My guess is it's another slightly lost in translation thing.
My guess is that this is replacing the bottom plate of the chassis.
Who will be the guinea pig and get the upgrade so we can see how the upgrade works and what will be changed
