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DEQX early access USD12995 (AUD20K)

Started by MichaelH, October 08, 2023, 08:10:18 PM

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MichaelH

I had this sent to me from a friend. The old DEQX was USD5995 according to the wayback machine. The new one is over 20k Australian.

I don't know how many cheap arse stereonet buyers will fork out 20k for this. But a price hike of 3 times for a new model seem a bit of a stretch. DEQX want your money up front and then a 3 month wait until you receive it. Is that like building off the plan? Or may be crowd sourcing disguised as early access and beta testing. They want you to pay them to test their new product. There doesn't seem to be any return policy attached to this. What happens if its rubbish like their last products? Do you get your money back? I doubt it as they have already spent your money making it.

Good luck with this one.

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Tranquility Bass

So is this the big big secret they have been keeping away from everyone of late ?? It would be more credible if they showed an actual working prototype and measurements coming from it like I did ;) Ironically I was offering this spec three years ago at a third of their expected price, and the DEQX aficionados came onto the diyaudio thread to essentially poo poo it because it was "to expensive" !! As well, DEQX somehow mysteriously was offering a 21st anniversary discount on their existing outdated product that they had never appeared to discount at any time before ;) Go figure !

And when I did release the new preamps you could hear crickets on stereonet. You'd think they would have rolled out the red carpet for me but instead they threw the spike strip in front of me but then again that's what they do here :( Still, one thing I learned from all of that was to keep my mouth shut on any new products which is what DEQX appears to be doing by the looks of things ;)

Tranquility Bass


MichaelH

More BS.

If the initial response was so overwhelming?

Why open it up to more people?

No working prototype?

Maybe waiting for Rushtons show?

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MichaelH

Now coming in....wait for it......soon.

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Tranquility Bass

I saw those replies on ASR. The plot thickens ;) May explain why they were still using the old DEQX product at the recent stereonet show otherwise the owner of the facebook page for which the following photo came from and for which is an OEM for DEQX products should have one of these beta DEQX units and should be spruiking it left-right and center on his face book page - right ?? Perhaps they can show us some pictures of the internals and tell us what CPU/DSP they are using otherwise it is starting to look like vapourware and the demo was nothing more than a glorified streamer ;) And for those playing along at home I recall not so long ago when I was minding my own business on my own diyaudio thread trying to promote the 2nd gen Ultimate Preamps, I had to contend with a flood of DEQX fanboys desperately trying hard to detract people away from my products :( The same fanboys are again present on this thread but this time talking up a product that doesn't yet appear to exist. Go figure ! Like I have said before it is all part of being part of the club and has nothing to do with merit or achievement :(

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MichaelH

I gave them too much credit for having something ready for Fatso the Wombats show.

Which by the way according to my friend who had a room at the show was an overwhelming disappointment. He wont be going back next year.

Maybe they all need to get together and do their own Lone Star Audio Show independent of the Fatso the Wombat.
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Tranquility Bass

From the latest stereonet show report !! Looks like a rehash of last years show with still nothing finished :(

QuoteAttendees to this room were shown a range of new and old products. DEQX products are designed and developed in Australia as the cutting edge in digital signal processing. All were fixated on Kim Ryrie's explanation of what the DEQX system was designed to do (interview coming soon to our YouTube channel), who captivated his audience with a simple explanation of complex electrical engineering. The new Pre-8 series of processing hardware was on display in its elegant metal casework, and with the streamer section working, but DEQX was using the currently available Gen3 software and hardware platform for the DSP work. We are told that the final production units are almost ready to begin shipping, pending some final bug fixes.

A slim vertical 3-way loudspeaker without a passive crossover speaker system sat on stands with a subwoofer on either side of them. This was being transformed into a fully active time-aligned 4-way system driven by DEQX amplification. The Pre8 is a totally unique product as it features a full preamp with streamer, DAC and a NAS and phono amplifier, as well as the 4th generation DEQX brains. Sonically, the DEQX system had an effortless sound to it. Bass was taut and substantial, and provided a detailed midband with subtle treble without glare, and all this from within a hotel room. We look forward to the finished product based on what has been heard and seen from pre-production samples.

Gen-3 hardware  = 1st gen SHARC DSP aka ADSP-21065L :D LOL

And this from a facebook feed that I subscribe to. Note the comment below it. You just can't make this stuff up :D LOL

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Tranquility Bass

Did anyone bother to look behind this new DEQX Pre-8 at the recent stereonet audio show ? Perhaps you would have seen something similar to this where the 8-channel outputs were not in use and the box was just a glorified streamer. Wonder what the stereonet show guide said ;) BTW has anyone taken the lid off ?

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