[attachment=5657 Wrote:ada pid='110757' dateline='1729777096']Personal opinion, this is the proof of how Devialet team evolved in the opposite direction and lost the capabilities of:

1. Product design
2. Understanding their customer needs
3. Technical capabilities
4. Marketing strategy

I think this product is just showing clearly the team of 2016 was superior to today's one and the product we loved wasn't maintained for all these years because they weren't capable of doing it. My only war with Devialet will be to get the ownership of current software pieces of Expert Pro (even if that requires money)

Just check the internal pictures of the Astra, at every single extend this is trimmed down version of Expert Pro:
https://www.on-mag.fr/index.php/topaudio/actualites-news/26569-devialet-astra-un-amplificateur-connecte-complet-luxueux-et-tres-haut-de-gamme

I am just guessing that even if they made the price doubled they are not targeting the existing Expert customers because they have to be insane to sell this trimmed down version to an Expert owner, I wouldn't even exchange my Expert for free to this thing!

(28-Oct-2024, 16:30)jparvio Wrote:

(28-Oct-2024, 15:49)Joe Wrote: ...I am sure, some can remember the discussion about the non linear power over the frequency range, which was started after measurment of an well knows asian looking guy in the HiFi scene, can't remember his name right now. Thus showing high frequencies has much less power available than low ones...

This was also confirmed by Stereophile Magazine (measurements by John Atkinson), although JA did not really emphasize it in the overall measurement results.