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16-Dec-2014, 10:17
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Well, they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
Actually some of the earlier guesses weren't that far off - 3000W output is about the same as that of a air heater...
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16-Dec-2014, 10:20
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Apparently a completely stand-alone system? (No integration with existing Devialet equipment, as far as I can see, although it uses some of the same underlying engineering technology. Specifically, no mention of AIR.)
[edit] Not quite, I see there's a Toslink input.
At that money, I wonder who it's aimed at. I doubt Sonos are going to lose sleep.
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16-Dec-2014, 10:31
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Hmmm.. No connector for iDevices and no mention of UPnP or DLNA. I'm not sure what the 'Spark' application is - do they mean Apache Spark?
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Spark could be phantomAIR...
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I'd assumed Spark was some kind of control application to select what music was playing on what speaker(s).
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But what does it sound like ...... ?
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TBH I'm totally unimpressed, a very predictable "new" device. I really don't care what it sounds like. I think this phantom-egg is as ugly as the Devialets are beautiful. I really do hope this will be a big seller for Devialet, but it's not for me.
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Hmm, their countdown doesn't quite seem to be in sync with the actual release which appears to be happening around about now.