When did you buy your first Devialet Integrated Amp

[brit]

June 2014. First heard them at a Guildford Audio Hi Fi Show in Reading, but to be quite honest did not like them much at the time, it was too "bright" for my taste - plenty of detail, but too clinical. My wife, who was with me at the Show, liked the design very much - that WAF appeal at work . There was  the D170 and D240 (I think, at that time). Anyway, to be fair the Units were "new out of box", not run in properly, and being demonstrated in a Hotel room - not the best place to show kit at its best! I did like the technology, and the way in which the Units could be configured, I also liked the "single box" philosophy.

I did follow up with a home demo of both the then D170 and D240 and actually placed an order for the D240, but then came the change to D250, D200 and introduction of D400 and D800, so I tried a pair of D200s in D400 config (I think that this was before a separate Master & Companion Unit came along). As the price of the D400 was not dis-similar to the D240, I went for it - a D800 set up was way out of my price range . Anyway the rest, as they say, is history and I am the happy owner of a D400.

David