Munich 2018

[Zappydev]

They didn’t do an excellent job - delivering something late, with serious bugs, and missing promised features, is a very poor job.

Software development isn’t hard or easy, it’s just like any other task in that to execute properly and professionally takes planning and management. Devialet make software development look hard because they do it in a haphazard way and apparently underestimate the time and resources needed to do it properly. The reality is they should have been working on the software part of the CI before they announced it. As it stands it appears they started around the time it was due for release.

They also have poor beta test menagenent, closed and mostly secret, which is unprofessional.

I fully agree with Hifi_swlon here.
The "beta" programme for the CI is not what we want, especially not the secrecy and silly NDA. The NDA in this case is only there trying to prevent Devialet from looking even more amateurish.
The 250 Pro CI is still a fabulous amp so I am not complaining about sound quality, just the lack of control with software development

Yes, Hifi_swlon is absolutely right. I bought my O d’A almost 2 years ago on the promise of the Pro upgrade, but there’s is still no released version of the CI software, only a series of beta versions with a variety of issues. For an amplifier the price of a decent car, this is wholly unacceptable, and their arrogance and lack of communication just rubs salt in the wounds. 

Am I sorry I bought it?  No - it sounds great

Would I buy Devialet again ? No.