29-Apr-2025, 23:48
Hello everyone!
I decided to upgrade my first ever home hi-fi after almost 20 years, and enter the Devialet world with a used Expert 200, 2014 but in pristine condition.
It covers all of my needs with amp power and a standalone ad/da, with enough options for connections. And I have a perfect spot on the wall for it
I would like to pair it with an older B&W Nautilus 804 (805 is also of interest) and would like to hear
any experience/advice in that regard, if anyone still uses them or remembers when they did way back.
Some basic info: for the time being, it drives my old B&W 685 on stands, close to the wall. Listening plane is around 14 square meters, but it is in fact an open space apt which would all together be around 35sqm. I listen to music mainly from a Home PC (Spotify, Tidal, flac/wav files...) which is connected to the Devialet via coaxial s/pdif cable from a Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 USB interface. Sometimes, for fun, I change the source to Ethernet or WiFi, which also work great. Other than that, there's a Marantz CD player via the digital s/pdif, and a TV via optical Toslink (for Netflix, MAX etc.). A nice turntable will be added to replace the old Fischer...
Thanks to everyone in advance!
Regards, Goran
I decided to upgrade my first ever home hi-fi after almost 20 years, and enter the Devialet world with a used Expert 200, 2014 but in pristine condition.
It covers all of my needs with amp power and a standalone ad/da, with enough options for connections. And I have a perfect spot on the wall for it
I would like to pair it with an older B&W Nautilus 804 (805 is also of interest) and would like to hear
any experience/advice in that regard, if anyone still uses them or remembers when they did way back.
Some basic info: for the time being, it drives my old B&W 685 on stands, close to the wall. Listening plane is around 14 square meters, but it is in fact an open space apt which would all together be around 35sqm. I listen to music mainly from a Home PC (Spotify, Tidal, flac/wav files...) which is connected to the Devialet via coaxial s/pdif cable from a Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 USB interface. Sometimes, for fun, I change the source to Ethernet or WiFi, which also work great. Other than that, there's a Marantz CD player via the digital s/pdif, and a TV via optical Toslink (for Netflix, MAX etc.). A nice turntable will be added to replace the old Fischer...
Thanks to everyone in advance!
Regards, Goran
