07-Jan-2018, 16:12
I've just noticed, 2017 has ended!
So we can now declare the winner, the person who most accurately predicted three things that would occur in the Devialet world. So what has changed since the Q3 update? The main thing is that the CI Board upgrade is in progress and a number of users have now have it and tried it themselves. This takes me to two of my own predictions:
1. The new Pro streamer board will prove to be a little disappointing with respect to sound quality, with a debate as to if it sounds better than AIR or not.
2. The new Pro streamer board will not be 'Roon Ready'.
I could argue that these points have both proved to be correct, but to be honest both points are debatable, and to declare victory with this would be a little lame.
I also predicted:
3. A Renault road car with a Devialet ADH powered 'in car entertainment system' will be announced.
This almost happened as well with the Renault Symbioz, but again, far too tenuous and debatable for me to claim as a correct prediction.
This takes us to @Peter van der Laarse who in post #44 states "Aurelius deal: 2 out of my 3 predictions for 2017: bingo. " I checked back through Peter's original predictions, and if I am honest I struggled to rationalise that what we have is two accurate predictions. Maybe I am just not smart enough to understand exactly what Peter was saying in his original predictions, but this is no reason to say Peter is wrong. So on this basis, Peter is the winner, maybe. I presume Peter is smart enough to understand his own predictions, so if he thinks he is the winner, then clearly he is the winner.
Arguably the winner should be @Cylob who made just one prediction "Streamer board disaster! ". Some might think that is a 100% prediction success.
I would also give an honorable mention to @thumb5 with his predictions in #13, although he did cheat and come up with 6 predictions when the challenge was set to provide 3.
In terms of someone accurately predicting 3 things, I believe we have all failed.
I return to my mantra, if the is one thing predictable about Devialet it that they are hard to predict.
Here's to a tuneful 2018!
So we can now declare the winner, the person who most accurately predicted three things that would occur in the Devialet world. So what has changed since the Q3 update? The main thing is that the CI Board upgrade is in progress and a number of users have now have it and tried it themselves. This takes me to two of my own predictions:
1. The new Pro streamer board will prove to be a little disappointing with respect to sound quality, with a debate as to if it sounds better than AIR or not.
2. The new Pro streamer board will not be 'Roon Ready'.
I could argue that these points have both proved to be correct, but to be honest both points are debatable, and to declare victory with this would be a little lame.
I also predicted:
3. A Renault road car with a Devialet ADH powered 'in car entertainment system' will be announced.
This almost happened as well with the Renault Symbioz, but again, far too tenuous and debatable for me to claim as a correct prediction.
This takes us to @Peter van der Laarse who in post #44 states "Aurelius deal: 2 out of my 3 predictions for 2017: bingo. " I checked back through Peter's original predictions, and if I am honest I struggled to rationalise that what we have is two accurate predictions. Maybe I am just not smart enough to understand exactly what Peter was saying in his original predictions, but this is no reason to say Peter is wrong. So on this basis, Peter is the winner, maybe. I presume Peter is smart enough to understand his own predictions, so if he thinks he is the winner, then clearly he is the winner.
Arguably the winner should be @Cylob who made just one prediction "Streamer board disaster! ". Some might think that is a 100% prediction success.
I would also give an honorable mention to @thumb5 with his predictions in #13, although he did cheat and come up with 6 predictions when the challenge was set to provide 3.
In terms of someone accurately predicting 3 things, I believe we have all failed.
I return to my mantra, if the is one thing predictable about Devialet it that they are hard to predict.
Here's to a tuneful 2018!
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