Devialet's newest technology...?

[Flashman]

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I am inclined to believe that this is not aimed at us. they simply want to expand the business and get out of the niche.

now if this will lead to a loss of focus and derailing off their tracks towards best sound reproduction then i will obviously be very disappointed. but if this will be another revenue stream that will enable Devialet to grow and invest more on innovative R&D to serve us with more breakthrough inventions and platforms then we will all benefit.

Again i still believe Dialog is designed for Phantom and not the D series. Fingers crossed, the D seres should have enough processing power to do the additional functionality of Dialog following a firmware upgrade maybe a major one from 7.1.1. to 8.0 after which it should be possible for the D series to work and integrate with Spark and bridge the gap of direct streaming and UPnP
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I think you are on the right track. Devialet will have its premium customers (Devialet D-series) and its aspirational customers (Phantom et al). They will continually try to build in extra functionality to the D-series before the hardware runs out of steam. If the latter should occur, they might do something à la the Devialet Premier and have a hardware upgrade option, which would lead to further functionality, i.e., having Dialog and Spark capabilities if they cannot be accommodated by the current hardware setup. I have to believe the business folks at Devialet have thought of this well ahead of the recent announcements. On the other hand, the email that all of us received about the new products lumps everything into the Devialet "eco-system." I guess we'll just have to see...