02-Jan-2015, 13:14
I do think a lot of of the problem has been trying to keep up with the demands of customers. Everybody seems to have a different idea of what they want, a different idea of what they find sounds best and even a different idea of what Devialet were offering/promising into the future.
Demanding PC compatibility rather than accepting the Mac probably was the biggest influence on Air not being debugged quickly since it is now too complicated to cover all bases.
It is a shame, IMHO, since a dedicated Mac is not expensive compared to some of the accessories being used by owners (even cables for god's sake), and the "promise" of the original Air will now never be realised and all the other demands have just added a workload which is probably beyond the most pessimistic plans they ever had.
Add to that the software requirements of the new products and I am not that surprised by the bedlam, personally.
If they had just stuck to the original straightforward engineering plan they started with, rather than going into a flat spin trying to keep up with customer demands, I would imagine we would all have the great sounding LP, CD and Mac fronted wireless streaming device I bought into.
I am disappointed too, but I mainly blame it on the customers wanting PC support and UPnP solutions added, and demanding it done right now.
Demanding PC compatibility rather than accepting the Mac probably was the biggest influence on Air not being debugged quickly since it is now too complicated to cover all bases.
It is a shame, IMHO, since a dedicated Mac is not expensive compared to some of the accessories being used by owners (even cables for god's sake), and the "promise" of the original Air will now never be realised and all the other demands have just added a workload which is probably beyond the most pessimistic plans they ever had.
Add to that the software requirements of the new products and I am not that surprised by the bedlam, personally.
If they had just stuck to the original straightforward engineering plan they started with, rather than going into a flat spin trying to keep up with customer demands, I would imagine we would all have the great sounding LP, CD and Mac fronted wireless streaming device I bought into.
I am disappointed too, but I mainly blame it on the customers wanting PC support and UPnP solutions added, and demanding it done right now.
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).
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