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Devialet or Vitus

I own a Devialet 250 which is 250w into 6ohms. I have found a great trade in deal with a Vitus RI-100 (300w into 8ohms). It comes with no DAC but that can be purchased. 

The deal is really tempting and I think it will sound really good on my Scala Utopia. 

Anyone heard both amps to share his experience? 
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roxy54
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Neither of those two is going to suck, that safe to say; but you'd be silly to buy either without listening to both.
respected_ent
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My friend is driving his JM Lab Diva Utopia Be with Vitus RI-100.  It works wonderfully.  I would definitely go for the Vitus.
araz
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I have devialet monoblocks running focal sopra 3s. I have not heard the vitus but would still suggest to upgrade the 250 to the pro version or add a companion and run them as monoblocks. This would lead to improved sound and be more economical than cost of purchasing the vitus with separate dac and phone stage.

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audiotroy
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We ran the Devialet monoblocks and moved to T plus A gear on our ref setup there was no contest.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor Nj
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audiotroy
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Same thing with the Vitus. The Devialet is impressive in terms of noise floor, dynamics, bass control. 

The issue is musicality it is hard to relax listening to the technocolor Devialet presentation conventional Class A and A/B amps present music in a more envolving way.

It is like the PRAT crowd  there is something so natural with these fantastic reference grade conventional amps that make you want to listen to music.

With the Devialet you got great sound not music.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ
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