30-Oct-2019, 21:02
One off the changes that comes with the CI board upgrade is that your amp comes back with a wifi antenna sticking out of the back of it under the hood. I could never get good wifi reception with my 130 when I first got it, back in the days before the CI board, and ended up using an Apple Airport Extreme as a wifi extender near the amp and connecting to it via ethernet. When I got the amp back after it received its CI board upgrade I tried wifi again, just for the hell of it, and got better reception but went back to the ethernet connection anyway.
Why would Devialet add an external wifi antenna as part of the CI board if the internal antenna setup they had previously been using was effective? The answer, of course, is that they wouldn't so your assessment of the wireless connection on your amp is almost certainly correct. You can possibly fix it with the CI board upgrade but it's a hell of a lot of money if all you're chasing is a wifi fix.
Why would Devialet add an external wifi antenna as part of the CI board if the internal antenna setup they had previously been using was effective? The answer, of course, is that they wouldn't so your assessment of the wireless connection on your amp is almost certainly correct. You can possibly fix it with the CI board upgrade but it's a hell of a lot of money if all you're chasing is a wifi fix.
Roon Nucleus+, Devilalet Expert 140 Pro CI, Focal Sopra 2, PS Audio P12, Keces P8 LPS, Uptone Audio EtherREGEN with optical fibre link to my router, Shunyata Alpha NR and Sigma NR power cables, Shunyata Sigma ethernet cables, Shunyata Alpha V2 speaker cables, Grand Prix Audio Monaco rack, RealTRAPS acoustic treatment.
Brisbane, Qld, Australia
