21-Dec-2014, 11:36
I think I understand what @Music and Sound was trying to say. It looks like Dialog will work fine with music on a smart phone or streaming service but otherwise will need a NAS drive on some kind of network to offer stored music. Many products within the target market of Phantom have built in storage, or can run from music stored on an external USB hard drive. Perhaps Devialet figure that most people will be happy if it will simply play compressed music straight from their iPhone? I think many people in Phantoms target market will baulk at the thought of needing to set up and maintain a NAS drive / network or similar. However, plugging in a hard drive loaded with music would be a lot more palatable to most folk. Plus, this can't be that hard to achieve, my £200 Bluray player can run music direct from a hard drive or USB stick, and it can play Blurays too! Something like the Pioneer N30 can do it too, and this costs £300 with a nice display and decent iPad app. OK, the Pioneer may not be the last work in sound quality. Perhaps we all need to see more details of the thing before jumping to too many conclusions, but I do have an uneasy feeling that they have not got this quite right?
