"hacking" SAM to do convolution

[petrik]

A proper convolver in the Expert amplifier would be perfect.

Yes, exactly.

Many have waited for this feature for years, but it doesn't even seem to be on their roadmap. What are they thinking  

Maybe they will release their own digital room correction feature at some point in the future? I truly hope that they would release at least some kind of solution to this problem.

With all due respect, looking at this through the lens of Devialet, what percent of customers do you think are looking for such a solution?

My (WAG) guess is less than 1% of their installed customer base. I don't foresee the majority of customers using this feature, IMHO, YMMV.

p.s. I want to be clear that I am not saying this to be argumentative, nor negating the fact that many users do wish for this capability.

Unfortunately I don't have any facts to answer to your questions. Reality can be anything between 0 and 100 %.

I believe that many (=something between 0 and 100 %) should be at least interested in this topic because many don't have perfect room acoustics, perfect loudspeakers, perfect location of the loudspeakers in their listening room and perfect location of the sweet spot(s). Digital room correction doesn't of course fix all of the problems, but it can help a lot when done properly.

I also believe that you are absolutely correct that this may not be a priority feature for Devialet. Their vision is basically that "someday everyone owns a Devialet" and logically thinking that would mean doing the mainstream features first (like for example Spotify streaming support). As we can see from the Core Infinity features, it's all about adding mainstream streaming features to the Expert product line. Nothing about more advanced features. The question that I'm thinking is that how well does these mainstream features fit to the Expert product line.

We can also see a trend that many companies have already implemented some kind of an integrated solution to the room correction (Linn, Lyngdorf, Trinnov, Genelec, Sonos, Avantgarde, Martin Logan, most of the subwoofers and AV-receivers, just to name a few). Point is that the integrated room correction is already a popular mainstream feature. So perhaps there is a hope that someday Devialet also implements this feature.