Munich 2018

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@Damon  Thank you for your clear, lucid & reliable comments.  Good stuff!  One point to clarify, am I right in assuming that you were listening via 'new' AIR?

I easily second @Damon's comments and observations.  
Had a good chance to listen last night after a couple of days of casual "background" listening and to our ears this is a sizeable upgrade in dynamic contrast, soundstage and low level articulation.  
Our speakers are accurate (delightful) but considered by some to be reticent and lacking in bass energy, and it is often suggested that a subwoofer would complete the mix, but with the Core board they simply just barked with bass energy and definition.  
Very familiar pieces had, as Damon points out above, harmonic resonances not heard before and passages from loud to soft were simply breathtaking.  Listened to the "suite", from Abbey Road starting from "You Never Give Me Your Money" and it was just remarkable.  Ringo's short solo work later in the mix, "Carry That Weight" was just so dam punchy and rhythmic, Paul's bass work far more apparent.  Melody Gardot was spellbinding as was "When I Fall in Love" from Keith Jarrett's, At the Blue Note. 
There is more going on here than I had ever expected.  
Well done Devialet. 
(note: listening via AES from the dCS bridge)

Actually the point was made by Devialet about how few people were using Spark to control their Phantoms. 90% prefer to use Spotify and other native apps. 

The same would surely follow with Expert. 

Guillaume

Exactly my experience. Now uPnP works via iOS, OSX and Android using third party apps, and Air works as well (but uPnP via OSX seems better), there is no need for the iOS app. 

All they have to do is sort out the volume control and get it to revert back to the set default level when switching sources. 

However, if they ever get Qobuz onboard, they will need some way of controlling it. Hopefully they will get a modified version of the Qobuz app, but if Qobuz build uPnP into their iOS app, then that will become irrelevant.

Do you have to use the new 12.2.12 beta firmware for UPNP to work??

uPnP worked with the second beta (February 2018). The third beta did not work, probably my fault as I had wifi enabled in the configuration and was using ethernet, which was not a problem with the second beta.