Devialet in a state of chaos

[teddlesdee]

Not sure I'm entirely following this, but...before what?  Before you heard the Aavik, or before Devialet changed something?

I had Devialets under 2 years and did all the updates and during that period something happened not to my liking soundwise. 

/Mike

Personally, having interacted quite a bit with some of Devialet's leads, I really doubt that the would intentionally make their product sound worse.  That is antithesis to everything they stand for.  I think that there may be subjectivity, to a degree, as to what sounds good. I've read many that thought Devialet reduced the bass emphasis of the Phantoms a bit from the early days, and thought that was an improvement.  I suppose it depends on one's listening environment.   

That's one reason why I've been gently asking Devialet to consider providing an EQ for their Phantoms via their software upgrades.

I have said it before, and I will say it now - I know the 'purists' amongst us will not like the idea of using and equaliser, but in the 70/80s this was all the rage - Back then there was a plethora of EQ units available to add to your system. Now we have moved to sware based EQ, and I loved the fact that with JRiver you could 'fiddle' with the graph to get what you wanted to suit your room or listening preference.

It would also be cool if you could modify the EQ to your tastes on a song-by-song basis - Software-wise this would not be very hard to do surely!

Sadly, many system these days leave the EQ option out entirely from what I have seen. I moved to Aurender for my expert systema few weeks ago, and there is no sware with it, that can do this unfortunately! Same I presume with the Phantoms!

Bring back a new breed of Equalisers please!