18-Sep-2014, 13:47
Well, just to throw the cat amongst the pigeons, I am one customer who has never been interested by UPnP. I tried a Linn Klimax DS about 4 years ago and hated everything about using it, so that put me off. One of the great attractions of the Devialet to me, and one of the reasons I bought it, is that it did not work like that.
I don't believe active room correction is adequately effective for more than 1 listener with fewer than 5 speakers around the room, so the absence of room correction is engineering logic rather than marketing expediency, IMO.
There are internet reports about cable sensitivity. I have used 3 different speaker cables and not noticed a problem with any of them.
My mains leads are the ones I was using with my old amps when I changed to Devialet.
After 4 years playing around with streaming I find no benefit for a classical music listener and am only expanding the library on my computer with pop music. I do still stream the the 1000 or so CDs I had already ripped for listening to in airports/planes to the Devialet, just don't add many more. Of all the streaming stuff I have used I prefer iTunes, which, as a travelling music lover, I used from its launch so it could be familiarity.
OTOH I have mainly returned to LPs and CDs.
I regret the loss of the IR remote and HDMI from my D-Premier when I had it updated. In fact the only regret I have had with the Devialet has been updating from 2 D-Premiers to a "800". I don't use a speaker which will ever have a SAM file so I did not need the extra DSP. I wish I hadn't wasted my money.
Overal, though, I am a very satisfied customer. It does today everything I was expecting from it when I bought my first one (or it would if I hadn't gone and updated. Duh!)
I don't believe active room correction is adequately effective for more than 1 listener with fewer than 5 speakers around the room, so the absence of room correction is engineering logic rather than marketing expediency, IMO.
There are internet reports about cable sensitivity. I have used 3 different speaker cables and not noticed a problem with any of them.
My mains leads are the ones I was using with my old amps when I changed to Devialet.
After 4 years playing around with streaming I find no benefit for a classical music listener and am only expanding the library on my computer with pop music. I do still stream the the 1000 or so CDs I had already ripped for listening to in airports/planes to the Devialet, just don't add many more. Of all the streaming stuff I have used I prefer iTunes, which, as a travelling music lover, I used from its launch so it could be familiarity.
OTOH I have mainly returned to LPs and CDs.
I regret the loss of the IR remote and HDMI from my D-Premier when I had it updated. In fact the only regret I have had with the Devialet has been updating from 2 D-Premiers to a "800". I don't use a speaker which will ever have a SAM file so I did not need the extra DSP. I wish I hadn't wasted my money.
Overal, though, I am a very satisfied customer. It does today everything I was expecting from it when I bought my first one (or it would if I hadn't gone and updated. Duh!)
Devialet Original d'Atelier 44 Core, Job Pre/225, Goldmund PH2, Goldmund Reference/T3f /Ortofon A90, Goldmund Mimesis 36+ & Chord Blu, iMac/Air, Lynx Theta, Tune Audio Anima, Goldmund Epilog 1&2, REL Studio. Dialog, Silver Phantoms, Branch stands, copper cables (mainly).
Oxfordshire
