Devialet's competitors

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I always assumed the main competitor was the Lyngdorf. The price is roughly the same -- it's a bit cheaper. It has very impressive room correction and a digital crossover. I owned a Tact Millennium, which was made by Lyngdorf, and it sounded very good.

In my view the Tact/Lyngdorf thing never delivered. I tried the original Millennium and liked it a lot. I own the RCS 2.0 (but don't use it anymore). I then tried the Lyngdorf TDAI 2200. Quite nice, but it should have been much better compared to the Millennium considering the 10 years or so difference between the designs. The digital crossover in the 2200 was very good, but 'Room Perfect' is just nonsense in my view. It hardly corrects anything and you can't adjust how it corrects your system. The only positive thing is the fact that Room Perfect is performed in the amplifier. I use Audiolense for room correction. This is proper RC. Together with Acourate and even Dirac you get real correction. Dirac uses very short filters so does not correct bass as good as Audiolense and Acourate with long filters (65k of 132k)

Sorry for the OT comment...