Stereoplay rates 1000 Pro Best of Class

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The same power supply that we have in the O d'A right? 

Guillaume

There is no reference to any of the other Devialet Amps in the article but they do mention that the switching power supply in the Pro Version of the 1000 produces 25% more power than that of the previous Expert Line.

I seam to recall that the 1000 Pro power supply is 4kW vs 3kW for the D800 and O'dA?

To answer no32's question, listening to music that has real dynamic bass and slam, the 1000 Pro does seam to have a little more impact than the D800, not 25% more though I would say, but better, yes.  This is obviously very subjective stuff so lets put it this way, listening to most music I could not say that more 'power' obviously manifests itself in any way in the 1000 Pro, more detail, more insight, yes absolutely.  Maybe the power helps to give the detail and insight in subtle ways, Mathieu Pernod does like the line that 'infinite power' would be the ideal.  But every now and again it is more obvious, you get a passage of music that happens to have the right sort of bass slam and impact and it can be quite startling, in a good way, a kind of wow factor.  It never feels 'strained', that is for sure!

I am not someone who gets particularly bothered about reviews, but even so, it is of course nice when a good one does emerge.  A while back I posted about listening to the dCS Vivaldi stack with DAG mono block amps and mentioned that I thought that in some respects I thought the 1000 Pro was better.  That post was followed by a bit of on line banter between myself and Dr Tone (late of this parish), who accused me of 'coming in wearing a French flag'.  Dr Tone's context was quite funny, but it possibly diluted the fact that my post re the dCS comparison was quite serious, and that was a £200k rig, so also setting the bar quite high!

Much respect to Dr Tone if he ever checks in and catches up with this by the way, I was posting on CA recently with some questions and comments re HQPlayer, Dr T posted some very short and sweet remarks regarding HQPlayer filters with the Devialet, and after much experimenting myself recently, I can see he was bang on the money.  He could be a bit blunt sometimes, but he knew what he was doing!

Confused, so as not to hijack (too much) this thread, would you mind sharing a short comment on Dr T's recommendations re: HQPlayer and Dev, please? Or you can PM me if you prefer... Thanks a million!

L



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