The new Streamer Board - What is the 'must have' feature

[octaviars]

I'd just like to see it make AIR work. The 220 Pro sounds great, but once again AIR is full of white noise.

I run AIR 3.0.1 with my 440 Pro, zero dropouts and no whitenoise when I use it with Roon on my Win10 PC. I also seen that the latsest AIR 3.0.2 has problems again.

The Devialet site describes this new board in a more expansive manner than just as a streaming board... Here's what it says...

Thanks to its unique architecture, your new Expert Pro will be able to support Devialet OS in 2017 via the integration of a new electronic card.

This dedicated card will add more brain power to your Expert Pro and enable new features, such as UPnP/DLNA. It will be offered to you for free as soon as it is available, for all Upgrades before 31st December 2016 (value of $1,800).

Admittedly, this is mostly marketing speak, but I can't imagine UPnP/DLNA will be it's primary purpose, much less the primary feature customers want.  Has anyone seen a more indepth description?

I voted for Roon RAAT but in truth, I'd like to think that an $1800 board is being designed to provide far more capability and/or better sound quality integral to the future of the Expert Pro.

The biggest problem with Devialet OS is if it is like Spark is today with the Dialog and Phantom that it is miles away from Roon (I use both) so even if they make a OS that can for say run directly with a NAS and run Tidal like the Dialog does today the GUI is not very good and the stability of Spark (could be the Dialog also)  is really bad......

I really cant see what Devialets problem is with this streamerboard, other companys can deliver functions and if this card is an ARM based solution there must be power enough to give us many options regarding streaming.

I think dCS uses Streamunlimited product for there Rossini and Vivaldi sereis to get them streaming Roon and Spotify, I can be wrong on this but I think it is the 820 card they use.

http://www.streamunlimited.com/products/...am820.html

http://www.streamunlimited.com/support/d...20-v20.pdf

On top to the functionality of the Stream800 module the Stream820 offers the following:

• Faster 1 GHz Cortex-A8 CPU with graphics accelerator
  
• More memory (4Gb RAM, 4Gb Flash)
  
• External audio clock support
  

It is perfectly suited for:

• Lossless and gapless playback
  
• Up to 384kHz sampling rate
  
• DSD (native and DoP) and DXD support
  
• Animated UI
  

Stream820 in combination with StreamSDK, let’s you build all kinds of high end devices with wireless and wired connections to local networks and the Internet (UPnP/DLNA, USB, iPod, Internet Radio, AirPlay, Chromecast built-in). Control is available via local keys, remote control, Apps, or using a web based user interface.