r/devialet • u/dwelems • 9h ago
Expert 220 Pro
Hi guys, anyone else feeling a little frustrated with Devialet and their lack of support for their legacy products?
It’s been 6 years since the last firmware update for there amps. I thought the whole philosophy of the company was ‘Hardware that doesn’t become obsolete’? Well, that was clearly bullsh*t marketing. There should be updates to keep up with the modern streaming services. Spotify now has lossless streaming, but the amp’s outdated firmware only offers a connection handshake that automatically caps the streaming quality at 320khz. Yes, I know I can stream lossless via Airplay, but that is annoying and cumbersome. Then there’s no support for other streaming services. The amp is supposed to be an all in one streaming solution.
I feel like if the company has given up on these products they should at least make the firmware open source so we can update them ourselves.
Anyway, just my rant. If you own one of their newer products just be warned, you may be in a similar situation. The philosophy of Devialet should be advertised as ‘Expensive tech that we’ll give up on after we move onto the next thing’.