Phantom abominations

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These reactions and comparisons are all over the board - better than my Quads, Goldmund, Magico, not better than my Altec Lansing. I don't know what to think. They sure look like a great product that for most of us high end nuts, could replace a whole system.

AFAIK I am the only person on here with Goldmunds and I have NEVER said Phantoms are better, only that they are surprisingly close given the price difference (when I last looked a pair of Epilog 1&2 with stands were around €150,000) the Phantoms are nowhere better than the Epilogs, but given that they cost 30x less and have 4 built in ADH amps each they are a bargain.
I hope Ian doesn't mind me speaking for him, but he has also never said his Phantoms are better than the Magicos, again just surprisingly close.

Altec speakers are very coloured, massive fun on some music where the colour exaggerates but poor on acoustic and classical music IME some of the JBLs are the same. Anybody liking that particular sound is unlikely to prefer the Phantoms any more than anybody liking the more euphonic valve amps is likely to choose a Devialet amplifier.