Devialet 220 Expert Pro (Current Model, Full Warranty through 2022, Upgraded AC Cable) – FREE SHIPPING

FREE Shipping in CONUS on this newest model

FULL WARRANTY through April 2022

Excellent Condition (9/10) – Looks, operates, and sounds perfect. Less than a year old.

Upgraded Audioquest NRG-4 Power Cable (retail: $498.75) because it makes a difference

Breathtaking MM/MC phono stage – an astonishing upgrade not available on the 130 Expert Pro

Seamlessly merges a preamplifier, power amplifier, phono preamp, DAC, and streamer into a single, stunning dark chrome slab that outperforms many of the world's best separates – acknowledged to be in the same class as Boulder and Soulution electronics totaling $100000+.

Future-proof – guaranteed regular, free software updates will improve performance even further (like PS Audio)

Can be upgraded to a Devialet 440 dual mono configuration (and, factoring in the savings on this unit, would allow you to have a 440 at the price of a single 220 expert pro new)

ABOUT

SAVE MORE THAN 50% on one of the most musical, beautiful amplifiers ever made – a home and professional reference among the leading editors in hi-fi.

The Devialet amps are among the only products Hi-Fi News regularly assigns a 90%+ rating; the others cost multiples its price. According to John Atkinson (editor-in-chief), the Devialet amps are the most extraordinary products he has reviewed for Stereophile. 

The sweet spot in the new Devialet lineup. More than powerful enough for large floor-standers in huge rooms run at high SPL.

Clearly improved control, resolution, tone, and versatility over the lesser 110/120/130 models and past models like the 200/250/D-Premier. Record Active Matching and Speaker Active Matching also make a world of difference.

SPECS

THD+N: 0,0005% (220W / 6Ω)

THD: 0,00025% (10W / 6Ω)

Signal-to-noise ratio: 130dB

Advanced phono stage: Yes

Length: 383mm | Width: 383mm | Height: 40mm

Weight: 5,9km

Dark chrome finish (photos do not do it justice!)

A complete system with streaming (including Roon), extraordinary DAC with MagicWire technology, breathtaking and endlessly configurable MM/MC phono with phenomenally accurate cartridge and equalization presets/controls, gorgeous preamplifier stage, AV passthrough, two sub outs, and at the heart of it all an industry-disrupting ADH amplifier with vanishingly low distortion and state-of-the-art SNR, musicality, and emotion.

Every integrated component of the Expert 220 Pro performs at or above the level of separates at $5000 each, while maintaining astonishing system synergy, so compare at about $25000 and this is a screaming bargain.

Speaker Active Matching

Impossibly sexy remote

MASSIVELY IMPROVED

The Pro hardware platform and current software continue Devialet’s predilection for refinement. Their Analog Digital Hybrid circuit is now called ADHV2, this second generation having a simplified class-A amplifier that passes signals through two silicon junctions less than the original ADH. The algorithm that sits between this hybrid amp’s class-A and class-D circuits is now 10-bit instead of 8-bit, thus multiplying the precision of the ADH core’s control by 4. The updated class-D amplifier benefits from a power supply 50% larger than in the original ADH circuit, more gain in the ADH loop due to 14 inductors per channel instead of 12, and greater thermal efficiency. Devialet claims that their implementation of Texas Instruments’ PCM1792 DAC in a special gain circuit, which Devialet calls Magic Wire, results in a 6dB improvement in total harmonic distortion, and a noise floor 2.5dB lower than in their last-generation hardware.

IMPRESSIVE REVIEWS

“The power of the Devialet also meant I could turn the volume up to wall-shaking levels without any strain from the Spendors. The impact was almost physical in its low-end power, bringing a visceral quality to the music. But, as mentioned, the Devialet is not all about power. It also has a beguiling lightness of touch with more gentle, music. With ‘Never Known’ from The Durutti Column’s ‘LC’ CD, Vini Reilly’s simple guitar riff had air and space around the chords, the reverb washing gently in the background. The vocals - barely audible through many an amplifier - still whispered quietly and were intelligible and so much more haunting.

The amplifier’s resolution also meant its timing was uncannily accurate – nothing was lagging or temporally out of kilter in the signal. It doesn’t matter if it’s deep bass, orchestral brass sections, solo guitars or gentle vocals - this amplifier handles them all with a smoothness but sense of reserved power that makes you believe nothing can disturb it.

In fact, I’d say the only limiting factors are likely to be your loudspeakers or sources. As such this is an amplifier that could prove the core of your system for years to come while you upgrade around it. Which is a very sensible way to spend your money. An engineering tour-de-force. Masses of power and a state-of-the-art performance.” – Hi-Fi World, October 2017 review of the 220 Expert Pro (5 Stars, Outstanding, among the best in the world)

NOTES

Nothing else to say about one of the finest amplifiers in the world. I will pay Paypal fees and shipping in CONUS.

Local pickup available in NYC (NYS sales tax applies).

As I have an established 100% Audiogon score, buy with peace of mind.