Phantom surround setup

[Yondu]

Dante makes sense for a Phantom based surround setup.  However, suggest using a JBL SDP-58 instead.

Using the picture as the guide, Devialet are suggesting using 2 Phantom I's for left and right and the rest are Phantom II's.  I always make the front 3, matching speakers and think a Phantom I would make more sense. And it also carries the dialog.

** Or make them all Phantom II's. **

Also, I wonder what Devialet would suggest for ceiling speakers in an Atmos setup?

I've read through landing pages again and it seems I was confused at first, mainly by the images showing Phantom Is and IIs while all the base systems and mentioned prices start out with solely Phantom IIs but it seems sky is the limit in the configurations.

Theater 5 seems to be meant for "regular" Dolby Surround however, while 7 and 9 are Atmos enabled.
The mentioned Storm Audio unit seems to be optional when you really want to go nuts I guess.

To summarize the base offerings:

- Theater 5: 5 x Phantom II Custom + "Audio Over IP (AoIP) (Dante or AES67) high-end AV processor" Starting at 14.000€
- Theater 7: 7 x Phantom II Custom + "Audio Over IP (AoIP) (Dante or AES67) high-end AV processor" Starting at 18.000€
- Theater 9: 9 x Phantom II Custom + "Audio Over IP (AoIP) (Dante or AES67) high-end AV processor" Starting at 22.000€

Here is the website in case some of you haven't received the Newsletter: https://www.devialet.com/en-gb/professio...country=GB

Hi, as I understand configurations detailed (Theater (5/7/9) are only examples, you can mix Phantom 1 (with their Dante/AES67 to optical converter) and Phantom II Custom (the pro version of Phantom II) because this version supports Dante/AES67. The limit is more relative to the capacity of A/V Processor (usually 16 or 32 channels). JBL Synthesis SDP-58 (or 55) is also supported for Phantom Theater, like Stormaudio ISP Evo (MK2/MK3 with the aes67 add-on card), also Lyngdorf MP-60 2.1 (with aes67 add-on card) is known to be compatible. Devialet had presented Phantom Theater in multiple configurations (eq 5.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.4, 7.1.4) in tradeshows (ISE, CEDIA, PAVS)... There are videos on youtube about it.