Core Infinity board

[Hifi_swlon]

Really excited and looking forward to Oct. My only issue is with having to ship my D440 Pro again back to France, which would mean twice  this year. The unit is just about to break-in. Another issues is that I am not a fan of UPS and I wish Devialet would provide an alternative courier like DHL.

Yeah, there's break-in, and there's broken.  . Mind you I wouldn't pin your hopes on Oct.

...That has to be a huge expense on an install that they're giving away.  

Are they giving it away? I thought Pro purchasers/upgraders had already paid for it in advance as it wasn't ready and was being used partly as a 'carrot' to lure more sales.

But it sounds like they're making other hardware changes to the main board - which I read as 'they didn't quite get all the specs right for the interface between the two boards so have to do some hacks to accommodate it.'   To be honest I'm more worried about that than the SQ of the board itself since it's not like they're optional.

It's all getting more interesting than I'd hoped. To be honest it's quite a relief after so little happening I wondered if there would ever be anything 'real' about Devialet to discuss again.

I might ask for an extra polish, there's a few faint scratches on the cover plate for example, that I felt they just hadn't polished last time. (But I don't know as I never saw the case before I upgraded). And what could the remote need updating to make more reliable? Maybe they've switched it to wifi signal?

Anyone else had the emails btw? My "upgrade now" ones came through, but not these.

I was pointing to it, because me and others here in the forum got a SQ improvement by pulling out the Wifi-Module.
And it is most likely that sound will not improve if more 'electrical work' is added inside a hifi component.
How to know that?
You get this experience if you tune a PC with audiophile tuning software which does nothing more than cutting down 'electrical work' of processors and components inside this PC.
Another example is if you switch off features like DPM, Standby Function, Filters or any other function of your Devialet the SQ improves. So the  conclusion that adding some powerful processors (streamer board) decreases SQ is not far fetched.

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Not disagreeing as such, but I'm just hopeful that in the years since the original modules were created, their engineers will have kept 'on trend' and learnt a thing or two about how best to deal with those things. Or hired in outside expertise to guide them. After all it would be a disaster if the Pros - which seem fairly unanimously praised as a decent upgrade from the Expert - were hindered by an 'updated' but badly designed/executed streamer board.

So I have at least some faith. But in all honestly it's more like hope, since I'd love to be sitting smugly with my amazing sounding streamercard, and leave the CA crowd with their daisy chained array of widgets and PSUs long behind. I just dream of the single box I bought into. The Pro has gone much of the way there. A 'dCs killer' level streamer would seal the deal.