The D platform has been around for a long time. And today, not next month, not at Munich, not next year, we are pretty much where we were when D Premier was launched. SAM does nothing for me (and I have the Duettes which are SAM enabled), my 240 was upgraded to an amazing 250W which, in the real life, is absolutely insignificant, no functionality was added, no room correction, no UPnP, no DSD (I'm not big on this one anyway) and I'm not sure why am I supposed to get excited about a Sonos - type system? There are loads on the market, at best this would be as good as some of the better ones.
But still with no infrared capabilities, no HDMI (so I wonder how the home cinema business is going to work over SPDIF - a bit like Sonos probably), with promised UPnP but I will believe it when I'll see it. As for the Phantoms themselves, no comment. They look a bit like the iPhone 5C from Apple if you know what I'm talking about. Lovely, just lovely.
From my point of view nothing has changed. Devialet has invested nothing further in my high end amp, instead it is now trying to appeal to the Sonos generation. Dialog is no different than Aries, Moon Mind and gazillions of other external solutions, meaning cables, power supplies, sockets, a lot more variables that do not play well with the "shortest path" philosophy.
I would like to connect my D amp to the internet and stream music from my NAS, I would like to have room calibration on board etc. It's all in my original post. I am not being pessimistic, I just don't see why I should enthuse about yet another external UPnP solution (and one that Devialet would charge me for), probably, considering the target and price, significantly inferior SQ-wise to what I am using right now.
But still with no infrared capabilities, no HDMI (so I wonder how the home cinema business is going to work over SPDIF - a bit like Sonos probably), with promised UPnP but I will believe it when I'll see it. As for the Phantoms themselves, no comment. They look a bit like the iPhone 5C from Apple if you know what I'm talking about. Lovely, just lovely.
From my point of view nothing has changed. Devialet has invested nothing further in my high end amp, instead it is now trying to appeal to the Sonos generation. Dialog is no different than Aries, Moon Mind and gazillions of other external solutions, meaning cables, power supplies, sockets, a lot more variables that do not play well with the "shortest path" philosophy.
I would like to connect my D amp to the internet and stream music from my NAS, I would like to have room calibration on board etc. It's all in my original post. I am not being pessimistic, I just don't see why I should enthuse about yet another external UPnP solution (and one that Devialet would charge me for), probably, considering the target and price, significantly inferior SQ-wise to what I am using right now.
