Remote mayhem with two Devialet Experts

[Pleyel]

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Ultimate thought: if you put a refrigerator between the two amps, say, hung from the ceiling and plugged in and running, that would be a low-tech solution. Our Dev remote doesn't work when I'm in the kitchen and the refrigerator is between me and the amp. I'll leave the installation details to you to solve. Bonus points if it gives you extra cold beer or cool wine storage.

I love the thought of rigging a refrigerator up as a Heath Robinson Faraday barrier   I did actually begin to wonder about somehow adding shielding ... and one option is to use a foil underlay under the upstairs carpet. But it's a bit of an extreme fix.

You may be right about the design pathway here. And of course, even with this design flaw the Devialet remote is incredible. I'm a remote snob, and one of the reasons I love this amp is that they achieved something with it that no other company has managed in producing a responsive analog-feel remote control.

Again, since the pairing only occurs when the signal from the remote exceeds a given level at the amp (hence actually designed to support multiple, independent amps+assigned remotes in the same room, even if this threshold happens to be too low), you may try to reduce the received signal strength by shielding specifically the amp (or the remote), which looks quite easier:
if you look for a solution, covering the window under the amp showing a red device with some conductive material (e.g. aluminium foil) should lower the pairing threshold and help fixing the issue. Low-tech but probably efficient.
The material of the table also has an impact.

You still can enjoy beer or wine while listening ;-)