Devialet Reviews

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Makes me want another Silver Phantom.
And just as we already know, brilliant speakers, cr@p Spark.

I'm very sure two of them is the minimum as most recordings are made for stereo, with three set up in a triangle you get a very nice dipole, thus increased 3D space. Steve Huff really brought to the point what I enjoy daily!
Even better, Spark has evolved since the latest update and the setup should now work smoothless in all households where the power outlet is on a single phase for Phantoms and Dialog such that Devialet's PLC functions.

Can you explain the 3-speaker set-up? Are you saying that the third speaker would be deeper back and central relative to the two other speakers? Btw, nice find on a really detailed review!

I can not speak for Phantoms and Spark as I do not have them, but for a classic three channel setup, playback of a stereo recording  would remove what is equal in L and R and send this to the center channel. After this is removed, Left would be L - R and Right R - L.
Three channel recordings (three microphones) where quite common in the late 50's and start of 60's. You can find SACDs with the original three channel content. And yes, the center speaker should have the same distance from the listener as the two main speakers.