Auralic Aries

[jjo]

This discussion is fascinating. How can it be that people on the one hand spend hard cash trying to exclude every possible interference, and on the other hand ask for non-essential features on a purpose build hardware platform.

I do hope that Devialet will keep a focus on core musical quality, features and stability. There is still some work to do on AIR reliability, feature support (functions of app's need to be available in AIR) and platform support (Linux version ?). If you ask me - which nobody does off course -, 'Me too'-features are only distracting when they are not necessary from a marketing point of view.

So, are you saying that Devialet should focus on the features you want them to focus on, instead of the distracting features you don't care about

The 'SAM-ready' label might also be a smart marketing move if they can get speaker manufacturers so far that they are willing to add the Devialet-label in their marketing.

It could go like that but I doubt it will. Remains to be seen. Someone might even go as far as to say "SAM ready" == "Devialet can use DSP to correct our design flaws" which doesn't really sound that appealing if you don't own a Devialet.