Devialet Expert 250
Published: 12/04/2025
Manufacturing date: 2013
Author: Karsten Hein
Category: Gear & Review
Tag(s): Integrated Amplifiers
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[Listening test in progress. Full review coming up.]
Sleek, slim, and beautifully enigmatic. The Devialet Expert 250 combines its timeless design with plenty of 21st century features to facilitate multi-level integration in contemporary home entertainment systems. It clearly shows that versatility and High-End sound quality need not be mutually exclusive.
Specifications
- Type: Integrated hybrid class A/D amplifier
- Power output (RMS, 6 Ohms): 250 WPC (from v7.0)
- High-current stability: 2 Ohms
- Frequency spectrum: 0.1 Hz-87,000 Hz (-3 dB)
- Total harmonic distortion: 0.001% (at power max)
- Signal to Noise Ratio: > 130 dB
- Digital features: Built-in DAC, WiFi-streamer, DSP
- DSP specifications: 400MHz, four channel, 40-bit
- Analogue inputs (RCA/cinch): 24 bit / 192kHz (up-sampling)
- MM/MC phono stage: capacitance/resistance matching
- Line-level inputs: 2x customisable
- Digital inputs (S/PDIF RCA): 4 assignable slots (max.)
- Further inputs: Toslink, AES/EBU, optical/RS232, USB, RJ45
- Wireless connectivity: built-in Devialet “AIR” WiFi
- Speaker outputs (banana/spades): 2-channel
- Subwoofer output: via line/RCA
- Digital outputs: AES/EBU and RCA
- Wireless sampling rates: 16-bit, 24-bit, 32kHz - 96kHz
- Coaxial and optical S/PDIF: 16-bit, 24-bit, 32kHz - 96kHz
- USB: 16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit, 32kHz – 192kHz
- Dimensions: (H)4.05 cm x (W)40 cm x (D)40 cm
- Weight: 7 kg
- Country of manufacture: France
- Year(s): 2013 (based on original D-Premier)
