Expert 1000 Pro

[GuillaumeB]

As for the new DAC.....  OK, I have no idea what the new DAC specification is, I have simply read the same marketing nonsense as everyone else.  However, there have been a few posts re support for DSD, DXD and so on.  OK, I get this, but one point to keep in mind is that the ADH core, the very essence of a Devialet, is native PCM.  So any DSD support will be via conversion prior to feeding the ADH core.  Unless I'm very wrong here, true native DSD with a Devialet would be impossible.  One point to note though, having heard the staggeringly good performance of a D800 being fed DSD via a dCS front end, I'm not sure if this matters too much in the real world.  I'd take real world performance over paper specs every time.

I don't think there is necessarily a problem with converting DSD to PCM inside the Devialet. Whilst we are seeing more and more native DSD DACs on the market highly esteemed DACs such as the Soulution 560 convert DSD to PCM. As you say real world performance is more important than specs here.

It shouldn't be such a big issue for the Devialets to process DXD which is PCM after all.

And whilst we are at it would be nice to see a selection of digital filters, à la dCS. Even the T+A DAC 8 DSD has different filter types (FIR 1 & 2, Bez 1 & 2).

Guillaume