Last minute Summer Devialet Event at OAC with Mathieu Pernot! 12 July 2018

[GuillaumeB]

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One thing I can say is that Devialet had a working demo at OAC of Qobuz streaming via CI, so progress is being made.

We may be talking at cross purposes, but: are you sure?  I'm pretty confident Qobuz was working via Airplay (I checked with Joachim, because direct support for Qobuz would be really helpful to me)...

Now you have said that, no, I am not sure at all!

I am sure we would all know about it if native support for Qobuz existed in the CI board.

Airplay would not really be a good solution (for me) since I am now using Qobuz Sublime + and consequently accessing their entire HD catalogue via streaming. Equally I don’t want to use my MacBook to push content to the Devialet. I think the Spotify solution is brilliant, I get the full Spotify experience without having to stream from my mobile. Qobuz delivered in this manner would have been amazing, particularly as they have made substantial investments in their apps which are very nice to use.

The funny thing is that since I have discovered Sublime + I rarely feel the need to stream from my sonicTransporter which hosts Roon and my music collection. The Qobuz collection is just perfect for my purposes and I love to explore new stuff. Their playlists are brilliant!

Obviously if Roon do integrate Qobuz it will be pretty amazing but until this happens my Roon subscription is almost an unnecessary expense. I have no need for convolution or DSP, in fact my use of Roon is pretty basic... I barely use the filters to select music, preferring to scroll through album covers!!

I totally get the Roon thing and it makes a ton of sense for Devialet to prioritise this. But for those that don’t want a computer in the audio/digital chain (for whatever reason), native Qobuz would have been the ultimate audiophile option. And it was originally promised....

Guillaume