24-Mar-2015, 14:01
I voted yes, on the basis that I only use my Squeezebox Touch as a source, and it works flawlessly. It may not be the last word in performance, but the combination of its robustness and UI is, IMHO, excellent and has shielded me from many of the problems others report on the forum.
I did try AIR and, when it worked, it sounded great. To be fair, I didn't invest much time in optimising my network for AIR so the dropouts I experienced (fairly regularly: 2 - 3 times per day) could have been due to this. Even with AIR working, I decided there were just too many remotes in play (MonkeyMote on iPhone to select song, Devialet app on iPhone to control volume) for me to bother with it.
Like a lot of us on the forum, I feel that Devialet are ignoring their initial customers, whilst appearing to disenfranchise a whole new set of customers (this takes some skill!), but I keep on being amazed at just how good the Devialet sounds for the money. The next "proof point" for me will be when I take my Dialog out of the drawer in which it currently resides and connect it to my amp - using the recently-purchased-but-equally-as-redundant USB cable. If this doesn't work pretty much flawlessly first time, I may review this opinion!
Suspect the new few months won't bring anything new to existing users, Phantom/Spark firefighting is likely to swamp their resource. I would love to be proved wrong ....
ATB, Ken
I did try AIR and, when it worked, it sounded great. To be fair, I didn't invest much time in optimising my network for AIR so the dropouts I experienced (fairly regularly: 2 - 3 times per day) could have been due to this. Even with AIR working, I decided there were just too many remotes in play (MonkeyMote on iPhone to select song, Devialet app on iPhone to control volume) for me to bother with it.
Like a lot of us on the forum, I feel that Devialet are ignoring their initial customers, whilst appearing to disenfranchise a whole new set of customers (this takes some skill!), but I keep on being amazed at just how good the Devialet sounds for the money. The next "proof point" for me will be when I take my Dialog out of the drawer in which it currently resides and connect it to my amp - using the recently-purchased-but-equally-as-redundant USB cable. If this doesn't work pretty much flawlessly first time, I may review this opinion!
Suspect the new few months won't bring anything new to existing users, Phantom/Spark firefighting is likely to swamp their resource. I would love to be proved wrong ....
ATB, Ken
Auralic Aries G2 > Kii Control > Kii Audio 3 BXT
