With the amount of progress made in RC3 I would say its highly likely that we will have a commercial firmware release by 3rd or 4th April. Why release through the Beta channel? That could be because they have been busy fixing bugs on Airplay and might want to collect more bug reports. I agree that Devialet could be trying to speed up the process, hence come out with a release candidate through the Beta channel. Also Airplay had issues with soundstage, where the vocals were not centred felt like a channel imbalance issue, this has now been rectified in RC3. I personally feel that Devialet has taken a substantial step with RC3 in terms of fixing some major issues and I am really confident that they are on the right track. Even with the last Beta Release I was pessimistic and felt that Devialet had a long way to go, but I have to say I never expected such progress over a month. So the stories of Devialet building a substantial software development team must be true.
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