Auralic Aries

[Georgethesixth]

This discussion is fascinating. How can it be that people on the one hand spend hard cash trying to exclude every possible interference, and on the other hand ask for non-essential features on a purpose build hardware platform.

I do hope that Devialet will keep a focus on core musical quality, features and stability. There is still some work to do on AIR reliability, feature support (functions of app's need to be available in AIR) and platform support (Linux version ?). If you ask me - which nobody does off course -, 'Me too'-features are only distracting when they are not necessary from a marketing point of view.

If they were an IT-company, they probably would have been acquired by an industry-giant. There brand-name is valuable at the moment, but that can change very quickly. The way they partner with Athom might be a hint for the future : forming a good partnership with an established vendor and make sure the interoperability between two products is excellent. Add the name 'Devialet' as a quality-token and make some money on the brand.
The 'SAM-ready' label might also be a smart marketing move if they can get speaker manufacturers so far that they are willing to add the Devialet-label in their marketing.