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(21-Jan-2020, 15:52)brownzen Wrote:@brownzen Exactly my point! Competition never stands still. Devialet needs to keep innovating or competitors such as NAD will overtake them. And the resale market for our Devialet products will reflect the new reality.(21-Jan-2020, 01:12)Nakatomi63 Wrote:Hello,(07-Jan-2020, 04:52)Flashman Wrote: The just announced NAD M33 has innovations that the Expert series should have, including room correction.
https://nadelectronics.com/nad-masters-m...echnology/
And what has Devialet just announced? A smart speaker branded by Belkin. Yawn.
Very good review for this other model, the NAD C658, also with room correction and an initial price of 1,700 €
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c04EJODl...ploademail
I've just bought the NAD C658 last december and plugged it to my D440, especially to get the Room Eq feature (DIRAC Live). The difference before/after is amazing. Devialet without Room Eq sounds bland and with DIRAC, I get a slighty better spacialisation, voices are clearer... Really hope that Devialet will offer an integration with a solution like Dirac in the future... thus in conclusion, my D440 is now simply used as a power Amp, and it's quite expansive for a power amp... Devialet should care of the competition like NAD M33, because they are falling more and more behind on the HIFI market.
Devialet Expert 220 Pro Kinki EX-M7 power amp tethered to a fiber-fed Lumin X1 streamer via Grimm XLRs, Vivid B1 Decade speakers in Rosso Barchetta red (only 200 produced in a limited edition), Roon Nucleus with a Samsung 860 EVO 2TB SSD, etherREGEN switch fed by a Sonore opticalModule (and Sonore-supplied transceivers and 1M optical cable) with a SOtM dCBL-Cat7 cable to my Nucleus and a DH Labs Reunion Cat8 to my Lumin T2 streamer, Keces P8 linear power supply feeding a (to come) NUC and EtherREGEN switch with an external AfterDark OCXO clock., and opticalModule (5V/1A), AudioQuest Niagara 1000 power conditioner, ASI LiveLine loom (purchased directly from Franck Tchang when I lived in France), Less Loss Firewall for Speakers and Roon lifetime license with Tidal streaming.
