How about the phono stage? Has anyone compared it with good quality mc phono stages? I still use a TT a fair bit.
It's all beautiful hardware, but I wonder how it'll fare in 10 or 20 years compared to traditional HiFi.
The biggest fly in the oinkment with devialet is le configurateur .. requiring you to be online and jump thru hoops to change something in configuration.. and you cant do it in real time either .. requires you to play the shuffle SD card thing.
It should be easier......
It's all beautiful hardware, but I wonder how it'll fare in 10 or 20 years compared to traditional HiFi.
I just like the simplicity of it all. The Devialet system seems pretty clunky by comparison, judging by what I am reading here. What is it that makes it so desirable?
Engineering prowess, utility and sheer French élan?
....god, I'm really talking myself into one.
It all sounds very complicated to me. I have a Linn DSM, which has a streamer, pre- and power-amps, with all manner of inputs, including a phono stage. You can play anything on it, and stream directly fom the web, a computer, pad or a phone. Linn regularly update the firmware. There is a built-in room 'configurator' within their firmware.
I just like the simplicity of it all. The Devialet system seems pretty clunky by comparison, judging by what I am reading here. What is it that makes it so desirable?