10-Dec-2022, 20:29
(10-Dec-2022, 19:25)lpuncel Wrote: That's interesting. I have never noticed Devialet selling a CI board. I have the 220 Pro and the SQ sounds great to me. Does this CI board make a big difference?
That's because they never sold the CI board. What they sold was the Expert Pro range. The CI board was part of the change when they moved from the Expert range to the Expert Pro range.
Initially, however, they started selling the Expert Pro range without the amps having the CI board, it was promised and delivered as a free upgrade to people who bought an Expert Pro in the first year of so after they started selling the Expert Pro range as the siuccessor to the Expert range. I bought my Expert Pro in March 2017 without the CI board. The CI board was released in December 2017 with Expert Pro owners receiving a free hardware upgrade installation of the board. My amp received the free CI board replacement in February or March 2018.
Expert range owners were offered an upgrade program to have their amps upgraded to Expert Pro level. The major part of that upgrade was the replacement of one of the circuit boards in their amps with the CI board.
The reason you never noticed Devialet selling a CI board is that they never sold the board. It's only ever been available as a free hardware upgrade to early purchasers of an Expert Pro, as part of the upgrade available for owners of earlier model amps to Expert Pro status, or already installed in Expert Pro amps sold after December 2017.
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.
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