Last minute Summer Devialet Event at OAC with Mathieu Pernot! 12 July 2018

[Confused]

Again, Roon have shown that its not too hard - they implemented it in well less than a year.

Yes, Roon may have implemented in less that a year, but they are software specialists and they had decided to prioritise this work.

Look at it a different way, I think Roon is hopeless because they have not implemented individual track ratings.  Furthermore, there have been a couple of threads and many posts on the Roon forum regarding individual track ratings and nobody from Roon has even bothered to comment on the subject, not one single post, Roon's communication is dreadful. 

The reality is Roon have chosen to focus on things other than individual track ratings.  In exactly the same way, Devialet are not focusing on Room correction because they have other priorities and do not have unlimited recourses.  It is a bit daft comparing Roon and Devialet anyway, one designs and manufactures hardware, the other software.  After all, we haven't seen Roon manufacture anything like ADH have we?  Very different companies.

In an ideal world, Roon and Devialet would collaborate.  Imagine, Devialet could make superb amplifiers and all they would have to do is make them Roon ready, you could then enjoy the superb Devialet sound quality together with all the splendid software features of Roon, including convolution, PEQ and all the rest of it.  That truly would be the best of both worlds.  And yes, we have this now, so it's not so terrible is it?  (unless you want to play vinyl, or connect your Dev to the telly or something )

The simple fact is, room correction is not Devialet's priority at the moment, and they have made this clear.  It might be your priority, but then again, many other customers would not be remotely bothered about it.  In exactly the same way, Roon annoys the hell out of me for not including something so incredibly simple as individual track ratings, they then annoy me further by not responding with one single post on the topic on their own forum.  Roon = Rubbish!  It's so simple!!  iTunes and JRiver can do it, even the rubbish Media Monkey can do it.  Roon can't even be bothered to communicate on the subject.  Roon can't even build amplifiers!  That said, individual track ratings is my priority, others share this view, but I am sure most Roon users could not care less about it.

So it depends on how you look at it.  Me, I am actually running Roon with room correction together Devialet amp, as a total system it is incredibly powerful, very impressive.  Roon doing what they do best, Devialet doing what they do best, and it all works together with perfect synergy.

Sometimes it is best to enjoy what is good and works now, rather than getting too hooked up on one companies priorities not being 100% aligned with your own.

(It's been a tough week, I am in the mood for a rant!   )