17-Aug-2019, 13:30
The September 2019 issue of The Absolute Sound gives a "Golden Ear" award to the Devialet Expert 220 Pro.
The short piece is written by Robert E. Greene and starts by saying that the amp is one of the best "ever."
The piece lauds SAM as a killer feature, saying it checks the speaker 86,000 times a second (didn't know this). "The results," he says, "are all but uncanny."
Now here's the puzzling thing: at the end of the piece, the writer says that "The SAM system is something new, and truly remarkable. Review forthcoming (my emphasis)." Say, what? SAM has been around a long time. I think I read somewhere that Devialet is intent on rolling out its various bits of technology in non-Devialet devices. I wonder whether this is what he's referring to.
The short piece is written by Robert E. Greene and starts by saying that the amp is one of the best "ever."
The piece lauds SAM as a killer feature, saying it checks the speaker 86,000 times a second (didn't know this). "The results," he says, "are all but uncanny."
Now here's the puzzling thing: at the end of the piece, the writer says that "The SAM system is something new, and truly remarkable. Review forthcoming (my emphasis)." Say, what? SAM has been around a long time. I think I read somewhere that Devialet is intent on rolling out its various bits of technology in non-Devialet devices. I wonder whether this is what he's referring to.
Devialet Expert 220 Pro Kinki EX-M7 power amp tethered to a fiber-fed Lumin X1 streamer via Grimm XLRs, Vivid B1 Decade speakers in Rosso Barchetta red (only 200 produced in a limited edition), Roon Nucleus with a Samsung 860 EVO 2TB SSD, etherREGEN switch fed by a Sonore opticalModule (and Sonore-supplied transceivers and 1M optical cable) with a SOtM dCBL-Cat7 cable to my Nucleus and a DH Labs Reunion Cat8 to my Lumin T2 streamer, Keces P8 linear power supply feeding a (to come) NUC and EtherREGEN switch with an external AfterDark OCXO clock., and opticalModule (5V/1A), AudioQuest Niagara 1000 power conditioner, ASI LiveLine loom (purchased directly from Franck Tchang when I lived in France), Less Loss Firewall for Speakers and Roon lifetime license with Tidal streaming.
