Oh Dr Tone, you are such a tease! 
(as well as being a Roon fanboy as well, although not quite as bad as that Hifi_swlon chap 
) Having said that, careful observation should reveal that I have been annoyed with Devialet on a more or less permanent basis for over three years. AIR, communication, idiotic responses from the Temple of Truth, communication, streamer board, the treatment of O'dA buyers, communication, Quentin Sanne, communication, etc. I could rant for hours on this stuff! In fact in recent weeks I have seen (and maybe added to) mini-rants on such topics on the love is in the AIR page, Twitter, Facebook, so it's not just me!
To be honest, despite all this I am probably one of the happiest Devialet owners around. I am delighted with the 1000 Pro, and I have not heard anything at any price I would swap it for. It is back to the ultimate Devialet cliché, superb hardware, software not so good. (that's the polite version of the cliché) I am also happy with my mR/LPS-1/Mutec 'front end'. So all I need to do is relax, enjoy the music, and see what Devialet deliver at whatever point in the future when it actually arrives.
The thing is though, I am actually optimistic that the streamer board will be good. Taking the Devialet cliché, I consider the streamer board to be primarily a hardware project, and if this piece of hardware is integrated fully with the Devialet, short signal paths and other good stuff, then maybe it just might be excellent. Devilaet are good at hardware remember, and I have every confidence that Mathieu Pernod and co, working hard in their lab 'listening' and optimising with a brace of oscilloscopes, might just come up with something special. As for the software side, I am assuming the streamer board will be more of an 'endpoint', so any software requirements will be fairly basic. As for software, I think if Devialet were to simply pay Sonore a few dollars for their Sonic Orbiter software I am sure this would keep the majority of Devialet owners happy. (Roon, DLNA, NAA, AirPlay emulator etc.)
The other thought I have when in wild speculation mode is could the streamer board be user configurable / programmable? The one bit of information that was advised back in summer 2016 was that the streamer board will be ARM processor based. So maybe there is every chance the streamer board could be hacked to do what anyone would want. It's great fun speculating isn't it! Just think, we have at least seven months more to speculate before Devialet will tell us anything!
(as well as being a Roon fanboy as well, although not quite as bad as that Hifi_swlon chap ) Having said that, careful observation should reveal that I have been annoyed with Devialet on a more or less permanent basis for over three years. AIR, communication, idiotic responses from the Temple of Truth, communication, streamer board, the treatment of O'dA buyers, communication, Quentin Sanne, communication, etc. I could rant for hours on this stuff! In fact in recent weeks I have seen (and maybe added to) mini-rants on such topics on the love is in the AIR page, Twitter, Facebook, so it's not just me!To be honest, despite all this I am probably one of the happiest Devialet owners around. I am delighted with the 1000 Pro, and I have not heard anything at any price I would swap it for. It is back to the ultimate Devialet cliché, superb hardware, software not so good. (that's the polite version of the cliché) I am also happy with my mR/LPS-1/Mutec 'front end'. So all I need to do is relax, enjoy the music, and see what Devialet deliver at whatever point in the future when it actually arrives.
The thing is though, I am actually optimistic that the streamer board will be good. Taking the Devialet cliché, I consider the streamer board to be primarily a hardware project, and if this piece of hardware is integrated fully with the Devialet, short signal paths and other good stuff, then maybe it just might be excellent. Devilaet are good at hardware remember, and I have every confidence that Mathieu Pernod and co, working hard in their lab 'listening' and optimising with a brace of oscilloscopes, might just come up with something special. As for the software side, I am assuming the streamer board will be more of an 'endpoint', so any software requirements will be fairly basic. As for software, I think if Devialet were to simply pay Sonore a few dollars for their Sonic Orbiter software I am sure this would keep the majority of Devialet owners happy. (Roon, DLNA, NAA, AirPlay emulator etc.)
The other thought I have when in wild speculation mode is could the streamer board be user configurable / programmable? The one bit of information that was advised back in summer 2016 was that the streamer board will be ARM processor based. So maybe there is every chance the streamer board could be hacked to do what anyone would want. It's great fun speculating isn't it! Just think, we have at least seven months more to speculate before Devialet will tell us anything!
1000 Pro - KEF Blade - iFi Zen Stream - Mutec REF10 - MC3+USB - Pro-Ject Signature 12
