New product launch?

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My best guess is that they figured out they can't fix AIR so the only way to dig themselves out of this hole is to introduce better SQ with an upgrade that will then also improve the streaming side. More money in the bank and AIR issues forgotten forever 

Not sure of that.
AFAIC, AIR has been working great since I made the appropriate efforts to make Beta 3.0 work.
I have been fighting a lot to make it work but now it's working in a very reliable manner and with the best SQ I could ever get from my D900.
What has been missing IMHO is a clear roadmap from Devialet for installing and operating AIR. But if you take all the necessary steps. ie :
- dedicate an Airport (Express is working well) which costs less than 100 EUR
- place the Airport right beneath the network board of the Devialet so that the WiFi signal is > -30db
- use exclusively fixed IP addresses (DHCP forbidden)
- dedicate the 2.4 GHz channel to the Devialet
- connect the Airport to you home router through RJ-45
- make sure all interference generating HW (Mac, disks, NAS, router, aso) are far enough (>3m) from the Devialet/Airport
- make sure that the load of the streaming Mac is not excessive
You should have great results.
Just my 2c, but this POW is shared by the French community of Devialet owners.

So the upgrade is to bring to everyone the SQ of the D900, which is, IMHO, a fantastic opportunity.

[EDIT] The new streamer seems to necessitate the change of the 'gun board' named from the shape of this PC board, and which hosts the operating system of the Devialet. This is the reason why only upgraded machines will be able to support it. Nothing to do with SQ.

I understand you have AIR working properly Swissbear. As a matter of fact, mine works too and I have 2 x 20m cheap Cat5 cable on a simple router. Still, the are too many people who are struggling. Given that AIR v1 was working fine with Mac only, I think if they would have left it as it was they would have saved themselves a lot of hassle.