When can we expect EQ?

[Confused]

I doubt anyone knows! Probably not even Devialet themselves. However, it was not long ago that this was promised. (soon?) This is something I have found myself idly thinking about form time to time. When I first bought a Devialet amp, there was this promise of updates and developments, tentatively something every six months. This did then drift into a pattern, where something minor might come out in the autumn, but the 'big one' would arrive in time for the Munich hifi show. So it felt like you could expect something significant once a year at Munich time. Whether or not this 'major' update was any interest or use to you or not was another matter. It seamed to me that all of this went out of the window at about the time rumours of the Phantom project started, so it would appear from the perspective of an outsider that the Phantom, Dialog and Spark proved to be far more challenging than Devialet expected, and hence sucked up all the recourses that Devialet had, leaving very little left to develop anything for the Expert range. Indeed, even the major update that included SAM was mainly a spin off from the Phantom project, rather than something resourced specifically for the Expert range. Recently there has been talk of Devialet increasing the size of their software team, this is good news but I am sure that they will be busy enough sorting out the many existing issues, as well as working on the new mystery Devialet streamer board, which has to be priority as they have announced it is coming out in 2017 and they are effectively selling it now as part of the new Pro amp and upgrades. Once all this is sorted out, and being optimistic, I would say that they may indeed then have the time and resources to look at room correction. So taking everything into account, and being optimistic with a degree of realism, I would say this is possible in 2018 or 2019. Being pessimistic, it will never happen. But let's have a moment of crazed optimism, the firmware updates have been a big disappointment recently, and now Devialet have their Pro series and new streamer to showcase at Munich, maybe they will spring a surprise and announce room correction at Munich 2017. I would say that 2019 is more likely though......