Blindspot
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This is a new Yamaha amp, old school as in it's appearance.
Good point, well made. Still love a decorative VU meter (or do the new-old-skool Yamahas actually do something?)
This is a new Yamaha amp, old school as in it's appearance.
Sopras and a pair of REL S3s? What are you listening to in your medium sized stadium??
That sounds like a pretty serious set up, and very possibly the sort of direction I'd like to go for future improvements. Perhaps B&W rather than Focal, but I do like the time-alignment of drivers idea..
I didn't realise that there was a difference in the remotes? Mine is a pretty chunky chrome effort with the rotating dial. Seems like a wasted opportunity to have a little OLED display for source selection in the middle though.
I moved to Devialet in 2014, I was a long term Naim user before then. I took advantage of the upgrade scheme to have it converted to 220 Pro spec (new board) and then it went back to France again for the CI board. Never had any problems with dropouts but I’ve always used wired Ethernet. Roon with my locally stored music and a Qobuz subscription works brilliantly. As others mention, the Remote is lovely and very tactile. Devialet have just released a FW update which fixed a few remaining bugs and added room correction ability (Sweet Room)
Tweaking ? it’s not really that sort of amp. Just make sure that DPM is turned off and that’s about it. Some fiddle with mains cables but the limited access to the IEC connector (unless you leave the rear cover off) rules out most of those. Mine is on a dedicated radial which made a surprising difference and for the cost was well worth doing.
Apart from a quick dust off once a week, it just gets on with the job and lets me enjoy my music. Works for me.
You can’t really know unless you listen.I've had a hankering for a Michell Gyro SE with a tecnoarm and DL304 since playing with one about 15 years ago when I worked in a 7oaks. But I just can't get my head around the notion of choosing this lovely analogue source, and then converting to digital - if I'm doing that, why bother with the turntable...
One of the worst sounds I ever heard from a turntable was through a Devialet. It was the first model that came out about 9 years ago. Better to buy a good stand alone analogue phono stage and just use the Devialet to process the line level signal from the phono stage as opposed to using their digitised phono offering.
That’s a rather sweeping statement to make. I guess you have your own commercial reasons for making such a comment. But it must have been some pretty awful turntable and cartridge you were listening to, because that’s not my experience of the Devialet phono stage.
One of the things you definitely don't want to do is to digitise the analogue signal from the turntable which Devialet do in their designs.
Why not exactly?
Digitising the analogue signal from an LP allows very accurate RIAA compensation using DSP rather than using imperfect analogue techniques relying on RC, LCR or feedback RIAA compensation .
As soon as you digitise an analogue signal you lose all perception of stereo depth in the sound stage. All the lovely layering that is present on a well recorded vinyl record disappears.
Not in my experience either, the stereo depth and soundstage of the Devialet phono is superb.
Of course, that is why every HiFi enthusiast has one...
I agree. Sounds great through the Devialet.That’s a rather sweeping statement to make. I guess you have your own commercial reasons for making such a comment. But it must have been some pretty awful turntable and cartridge you were listening to, because that’s not my experience of the Devialet phono stage.
+1I agree. Sounds great through the Devialet.
This was the first thing that sprang into my mind. I've heard them a number of times now and always been beguiled! I also used to own PL200s (you can tell we both worked for 7oaks) which were a very underrated speaker (people saw the badge and decided on the spot what they would sound like...even though they actually sounded nothing like most other MA speakers!). If you do go down the speaker changing route, I think you'll need to look in the Sopra 2 ballpark as a minimum, given the PLs punchy way above their price tag!I’m using Sopra 2’s
That’s a rather sweeping statement to make. I guess you have your own commercial reasons for making such a comment. But it must have been some pretty awful turntable and cartridge you were listening to, because that’s not my experience of the Devialet phono stage.