12-Apr-2021, 18:42
So my five cents. I have done Hifi for 35 years. Had some really good speakers; Yamaha NS1000M and Dynaudio Confidence C5 and C3 with some very special Mids and Tweeters. No Magicos etc, heard many of them though - to expensive for my taste. I worked with music all my life and I think I can distinguish detailed sound. So with the DOS1 I had an NODE2i and did optical MQA through Tidal. It was brilliant on really well recorded music, but had stability issues. I was persuaded to install DOS2 recently by my dealer and ditch the NODE2i and switch to a UPnP - where I stream Tidal MQA. According to Devialet "they have in the DOS 2.12.3 release, upgraded the audio pipeline from 16 to 24 bits, which provides the pipeline sound quality superior to all previously published DOS versions." See I asked them. I like this sound, I think it is way better then the original DOS1 sound only. Is it better than DOS1 with the NODE2i? I miss some of the highs. It can be that the the step from 16 to 24 bits "fills" the sound more and the highs are not as distinguished. It can be that the old DOS1 actually had higher options then 48hz that is currently my limit. I think so. But this system is stable, sounds GREAT on all sorts of music - including decent FLAC and I love the simplicity of this. So tired of all the stuff I had before. I love the bass with the Phantoms, the mids and highs are not up to my old standards - but the whole package is really nice and holds togheter. I hope they will sort out MQA and I can get 96 HZ by simply streaming. Hope it helps.
