Messages to Devialet

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Devialet, this is how your rivals do it.  Not so hard, I would have thought?

https://news.naimaudio.com/t/ViewEmail/r...9ED5AF8B9E

Dear Confused One!

Totally loved our D440s and did enjoin in the Devialetchat continual bitch fest in the last number of years but those days are gone...now long gone.  The Expert range is totally finished in my market, North America, not due to the merits of the product (which are great) but ...who knows...many opinions on that one....but you can buy a DXXX for a quarter of list and dealers hardly make much effort to sell out their remaining stock.  On a dusty shelf somewhere.
No use chiding the company....it is clear they are failing under the weight of changing cultural understandings of technical issues (your local, scooter riding,  bearded, millennial is technically illiterate) but more importantly, we live in a generation absent of any passion for music beyond what is offered by the low rez tier on Tidal or Spotify.  
No opportunity to hear great sound, no place to listen...

Colour me cynical.

Hmm. When a dealer does not commit anymore to a product then you would expect that they'd like to clear their stock asap. In fact, that's what happened when I bought my first D220: dealer did not want to carry Devialat anymore in their portfolio and I bought mine with 20% discount (if I remember correctly).

About the lack of passion for music in the new generation. I think it is still there but on another layer. We have to admit that us people with > $10.000 amps, > $5.000 speakers and about $3.000 worth of cables in quite large dedicated listening rooms are a minority. Nowadays people live in small(er) apartments and have so many things to spend their money on...

So I think they prefer a bit cheaper electronics and small box counts. You have some great combinations around $5.000 amp + speakers that meet this criteria AND are getting sold quiite well according to me. Think about the small boxes of NAD, Naim and speakers like the new junior Focal, Neat, KEF... And of course the D120!

In a small room, and with a clear mind that puts the right priority between music and other enjoyments in life, I can imagine myself for example being very happy with a smaller system.

Agree so completely....but bitching to a company because the market has moved so far away from any opportunity to sell this great product is an exercise of whistling in the wind.   I would welcome an emboldened new Expert series but doubt this is on the table.