What did Devialet use

[agentsmith]

kompressor

The general narrative from Devialet - as far as I understand it - is that they measure and calculate a lot and listen very little. Listening is unpredictable as a measure of quality.
Now I am sure they listen, so your question is a very good one. I'd love to see a list of loudspeakers Devialet uses to check their amps. Does anyone know?

That reminds of Japanese amps in the 70’s and 80’s where measurements were more relied on than listening when the brits thought listening was a more reliable mark of how a system sounded. While measurement is important i think they should go hand in hand. Devialet must have used a speaker at some point and listened and would be good to know what their reference was. I prefer listening to my 220 with Sam off for the most part, music i play determines if sam is on or off.

To add i do like how my 220 sounds for the most part and want a speaker that can exploit it to its fullest within my budget.

The late Julian Hirsch of Stereo Review used to be the laughing stock of "subjective" press the like of TAS and Stereophile for only reviewing measurements primarily.  However, I was quite shocked to hear from Daniel Weiss whom I owned a few of his products that he  designs his products through measurement only, 

I am still not entirely sure which is the right approach