Devialet in a state of chaos

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Indeed, I still have the impression that the problem posts are in a vast majority, which creates an impression that does not do justice to the D products' quality in SQ.

On the contrary, my impression is that many of the people who have posted about problems (including, but not limited to AIR) are at the same time making positive comments about the sound quality.

But then, of course people search for information when something isn't working. That's legit. Having said that, as an example, I would not expect that AIR wireless will work flawlessly in a highly WiFi polluted environment and a bad S/N ratio from the beginning.

That may be so, but the fact remains that Devialet designed, marketed and sold their products to work in a home environment where the quality of wi-fi signals should be expected to vary widely.  I am not saying that's an easy piece of engineering to get right, but wireless AIR was a heavily-promoted feature of Devialet products so it's surely reasonable for their customers to expect it to work as advertised.

That was my situation that I solved (without referring to any forum) by getting a run of ethernet from my Mac to the D under the floor. For this little insight I don't need any technical expertise. There is still the SQ premium option to run a line of AES/EBU cable between Mac and D, wjich is sonically even a tick better than ethernet. In this forum, however, were hundreds of posts complaining about ridiculous issues that could be solved by a bit of common sense. But the posters preferred to flatly accuse D for not having foreseen their desolate WiFi situation. OK, I am exaggerating a bit, forgive me.

There are also a good number of posts from people who are very technically capable and have invested a great deal of time and energy to help debug problems acknowledged by Devialet.  (I don't include myself in that category.)  I think your post above does them a disservice.