Core Infinity board

[Dr Tone]

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.)

I don't disagree on Devialet's hardware prowess.  Unfortunately this new piece of hardware will be 100% dependent on software.  We know how that turns out.

AIR, DLNA, Spark and even USB drivers are all software.

Devialet's current USB implementation and windows drivers are finnicky.  Fortunately Windows 10 Creators update is coming with Native USB 2 audio drivers.  Not sure how well USB to a Devialet works with a Mac right now?

AIR has been fun hasn't it?  DLNA is a piece of crap on it's own never mind in the hands of an incompetent software company. Spark has been terrible for Phantom owners.