Archimago's Musings: On the Joy of Numbers

[baddog]

Until I retired I didn't do much messing about with audio, just an occasional launch at a new product I fancied.

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Quick edit. I know there are plenty of owners who believe there have been SQ differences with each update of the Devialet. I do not. There have been lots of functional updates, and more power, but when I updated my D-Premiers to an 800 I did them one at a time. When the first 250 came back before sending the D-Premier back to be updated to 250 (so the pair of 250s would become a 800). Careful level matched sound quality comparison showed no difference in SQ using the AES input on the sort of music I listen to.
When I changed from 800 to Original d'Atelier there was too long in time between comparisons for any confident assessment.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I enjoyed reading this, and agree with much of what you wrote, FWIW.