DEVIALET now Roon Ready.

[David A]

i have talk to devialet regarding to uncertified issue, they think its a roon issue.

I'm not so sure it's a Roon issue. For a start it seems to be more prevalent with 140s than with other models and that's interesting. Second, when I did the update Roon not only showed my amp as uncertified but also failed to identify it as a 140. It only showed it as a 140 after I removed the amp from power for a brief period then restored power and turned it on. When I tried reinstalling the firmware in case something had gone wrong with the original install, the same thing happened. Roon failed to recognise my 140 as a 140 after the update, simply calling it a Devialet but not stating the model, but recognised it again after I removed the amp from power for a period and then reconnecting it to power and restarting. It's obvious that Roon can correctly identify my amp as a 140 but there's some reason to do with the firmware that prevents that from happening until after the amp has been disconnected from power then reconnected and restarted.

Given that all I have to do to ensure that Roon doesn't recognise my amp as a 140 is to reinstall the firmware update (it needs to be added that Roon recognises it as a 140 for the purposes of AIR immediately the update finishes), I think it's clear there's something funny with Devialet's update for the 140. At least 1 other user on the Devialet forum has reported the same issue of Roon not recognising the 140 as a 140 for the Roon Ready connection. I think that there is at least one minor bug in the firmware update affecting the 140 and how Roon recognises it.

That doesn't guarantee that whatever is causing Roon not to recognise at least some 140s as certified is a Devialet problem but if there is one bug affecting the 140 and how Roon recognises it, then there may well be another bug or both issues, the uncertified issue and the initial failure to recognise a 140 as a 140, are both different aspects of the same bug and that removing the amp from power and then restarting it fixes one problem but doesn't fix the other.

Roon are looking at it and I have no doubt that the problem will be fixed but in the meantime I'm not sure whose problem it is. It may be Roon's or it may be Devialet's. Time will tell.

In the meantime Roon seems to be working perfectly, even if it does keep telling me my amp is uncertified, and I'm happy listening to it while someone sorts out what the problem is.