My Phantom voyage

[ragwo]

The Devialet Operation System has evolved and improved a lot over the years. In the beginning it was really buggy and almost unusable. Infrequent updates made it stable after a couple of years and the latest DOS1 version was actually quite good IMHO. I was really surprised when Devialet decided to ditch the old OS and develope a brand new one. With the history of DOS1 I was really reluctant to upgrade to DOS2. No more built in streaming services, web radio and local media playback was a no go for me. When I started using Roon the need for Spark diminished, but reading of all the instability issues people were having put me off upgrading. An Allo DigiOne with Ropieee and a toslink to optical converter worked as my endpoint for the Golds. Lossless, high res(maybe) streaming was easy and comfortable.
My sturdy, faithful Allo DigiOne in another early sunset. 
   

Enough sunsets for a while, back to topic. 
When the rumors of an imminent-ish RAAT certification were emerging, I couldn't resist upgrading to DOS2. Curiosity killed the cat, hopefully it wouldn't kill my speakers too. With anxiety I downloaded the Devialet app and started to update my speakers. Surprisingly enough the speakers and Dialog updated without any problems and 2.11.5 was as stable as the latest DOS1 version. A better GUI, the web interface and the feeling of not being a digital Devialet dinosaur was worth the sweat, toil and anxiety before upgrading. A couple of months went by and suddenly RAAT was a fact. I was delighted and thankfully didn't have any stability issues. So, what would be next? I mainly listen to music and I've been missing the Kii Three's in the living room. They were mostly used as TV speakers for children series and afternoon watching of Netflix series of questionable quality. Definitely not their intended use. A new project emerged. Stay tuned, more to come. 
I forgot, here's a picture of the moisturizer jar. My sister in law actually mistaked it for one. Quite hilarious.