Devialet's newest technology...?

[Antoine]

I am told that Dialog+Spark is a big upgrade in terms of ease of use and streaming capability for the D series too.

If that's the case -- and it would be very disappointing were it not -- it'll be a big relief for me and, I suspect, quite a few others who've lost faith in AIR (white noise over ethernet is my particular bugbear, but integration with JRiver on Windows is also a PITA) and don't fancy shelling out for something by Auralic, Aurender or the like.

In fact, my disillusionment with AIR was nudging me towards ditching Devialet altogether (especially now that my D200 has been 'relegated' to my second system) and buying some active speakers, e.g. ATCs.

But no, I've kept the faith and ordered a Dialog, prompted not least by the very reasonable price.

Matt

Considering all the (past and current) issues with AIR it's, in a way, a smart move from Devialet to take out the customer's computer from the equation. Of course they should make AIR as fool proof as possible but streaming audio still is a semi real-time application in which it is important that everything in the chain performs well. It's very difficult to support a solution that works on such a wide array of devices/configurations. Remember there are many people that don't have any issues with AIR but Devialet can't control the customers computer but they do have full control over the Dialog (it's internal workings) that replaces that computer.