09-Oct-2020, 21:29
(06-Oct-2020, 06:34)massi.rav Wrote: Nope, discernible improvement in sound not noted from my side but I stopped with critical listening; so I might not be the one to hear.You and my wife are on same page. Ended up taking the plunge and upgrading to DOS2. The upgrade was not without issues, but nothing which I wasn’t able to resolve with some patience. Most of the issues were self inflected.
Reliability not changed. I rarely have problems but my connections are pretty easy (no Ethernet, no UPNP, only streaming via WiFi and throughout digital cable Tv-Reactor when watching Tv). Sometimes one Premier is not showing up as I turn on my pair of Golds and I need to turn it off/on again or simply disconnect the power cable. Then it is alive and paired again. So the new software is not improving some reliability issues that still appear here and there like in the past at least for me. Not disturbing so much because eventually rare in my case.
Thoughts? By the time you spent money on the new remote and if you want to use it, you’ll be forced to move to DOS 2 and the latest upgrade sooner or later. The new remote is anyway good stuff because of the responsiveness, shape, display and metal ring stiffness. Probably the previous one was connecting via radio frequency and the delay was very annoying for me.
To key advantage to the remote, in my opinion, is that it is simply more convenient to have on hand. I don’t have back out of an app to get into the Devialet app to adjust volume. I guess I could accomplish the same thing with an old unused cellphone, but I like the tactile responsiveness of the remote which most modern technology fails to capture. Overall, so long as it proves reliable and the musical experience remains positive, I think I will remain happy with the purchase.
