No need for uPnP, SAM, HDMI, RS-232 or IR here. I really can't see any benefits for those options in my usage. As always when you try to make everyone happy nobody will be happy. I do however require/demand a rock solid AIR application (I find great steps have been made here and I have even helped Devialet doing this being their first customer, together with 3 or 4 others, doing actual closed beta testing) and would like to get room correction but wondering if it'll even come and in what form.
I find Devialet -very- unreliable as well in the way they're introducing and marketing new models and giving away features that used to be exclusive to higher models. I used to own the D-Premier and Devialet making available new models that sounded equal or even better (as they wrote themselves) but cost considerably less really made me and other owners very angry (see their Facebook page for example). And in a way I was later also forced to upgrade it to 240/250 specs if I wanted to benefit from all future upgrades. But on the other hand if they wouldn't have made the upgrade option available I would have been much more upset. Then after the introduction of the 110/170/240, only the 240 would allow daisy-chaining. Not anymore, this became possible for the 200 model as well. The 110 didn't have an option for a sub-/pre-out but that today is also an option. Great for the people that receive/can have the options, not so much for the people that bought the more expensive model because they specifically needed/wanted those options and paid a lot for it.
I've never come across a device (in real life or reading about one) that wasn't sensitive to cables/power conditioning etc. I found it very arrogant of Devialet to say their devices wouldn't benefit as well and never believed a word they said regarding this but am not upset about it.
I find Devialet -very- unreliable as well in the way they're introducing and marketing new models and giving away features that used to be exclusive to higher models. I used to own the D-Premier and Devialet making available new models that sounded equal or even better (as they wrote themselves) but cost considerably less really made me and other owners very angry (see their Facebook page for example). And in a way I was later also forced to upgrade it to 240/250 specs if I wanted to benefit from all future upgrades. But on the other hand if they wouldn't have made the upgrade option available I would have been much more upset. Then after the introduction of the 110/170/240, only the 240 would allow daisy-chaining. Not anymore, this became possible for the 200 model as well. The 110 didn't have an option for a sub-/pre-out but that today is also an option. Great for the people that receive/can have the options, not so much for the people that bought the more expensive model because they specifically needed/wanted those options and paid a lot for it.
I've never come across a device (in real life or reading about one) that wasn't sensitive to cables/power conditioning etc. I found it very arrogant of Devialet to say their devices wouldn't benefit as well and never believed a word they said regarding this but am not upset about it.
PS Audio P3, Shunyata ΞTRON Alpha Digital and HC/Furutech power cables, Paul Hynes SR7EHD-MR4, DIY Roon Server & Roon Endpoint running AudioLinux Headless, Phasure Lush^2 USB cable, Audioquest Diamond RJ/E ethernet, Uptone Audio etherREGEN, Mutec MC-3+ USB, Shunyata ΞTRON Anaconda Digital XLR AES/EBU, Devialet Expert 250 Pro CI, Nordost Tyr Reference LS cables, Von Schweikert VR-5 SE Anniversary Edition, Anti-Mode Dual Core 2.0, JL Audio Fathom F112. More detail here.
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
