Core Infinity board

[octaviars]

I wonder what will happen to AIR3 with this new streamerboard, will it live on or just pass on to the shadows of the dead......

Probably a lot of people will skip the board update and will keep going with the current AIR 3.0.# (whichever .# works for you) that allows streaming with Roon. If you are on mac you will miss DSD streaming but at least the PCM seems to work reliably. I am on 3.0.2 and has been working fine since I installed it. I am not even bothering to move to .4
If in the future I will feel I really miss DSD I will look to some other solution. But I agree with Axel I would be happy to get the money of the board back....

Well that is fine if only AIR did work to a 100%. I use Roon/HQPlayer/AIR and that works ok most of the time but I still get the bluescreen and restart of the computer and the crashlog sasy it is AIR that have caused it.

As I see it many that are really happy with the Devialets are not using AIR and use other streaming solutions that is fine but I bougt my first D200 as a single box that could do it all with just a computer. Well that did not work out very well with the AIR 2.x.x versions atleast not to me....so I have run different sorts of streaming solutions up to AIR 3.0.1 came out and I gave that a try and it worked ok so I sold my other streaming solution but now it is not as solid as I thought it would be   and the latest 3.0.4 is worse in that regard to 3.0.2 in my system that is....

Ok then the Pro upgrade comes along, I did upgrade my 400 to a 440 and yes it is better but I am happy that I payed the lower price for the upgrade as upgrading my speakers made a lot bigger improvment in sound (I did upgrade speakers before I upgraded to 440 Pro so I have run bot 400 and 440 on my Sopra 2).

I still like my D440Pro and the sound is good but I dont like how Devialet handles things and perhaps the route they are on with their other products as I see it Expert models are just a little tiny bit in their plan to take over the world with products in cars, tv and so on. Perhaps they will still evolve the Expert range but if we look back at the amount of firmwares that they put out when I bougth my first 200. Right now I dont think they do much about the Experts more than completing the streamerboard and perhaps some sort of firmware to control it (this just might be a remade Spark app to controll the Experts aswell).

Perhaps we can agree that the Experts are a nice piece of equipment that brings really good sound to most of us so the streamerboard must deliver high quality sound otherwise it just seems like they built it just for the cause of delivering something. If Devialet as they say is all about the quality of sound and the Expert range is their main thing then the streamerboard must perform like this, why even bother doing it in the first place if we only get compability with Phantoms/Dialog/Spark/upnp and so on, I dont see this as options to geting the best out of my system and I dont think this is the main priority for Experts owners to do either but perhaps they will surprise us who knows?

I just think that we must respect that we have different ways of seeing this, some are happy and some are not so happy about this. Some have been on the ride from the begining and have perhaps seen more of the problems and some just came along on the ride and are doing fine with the way things are working out right now.