Phantom vote!

[amabrok]

Thought
I own a D400, say a couple PHANTOM will be better than my current D400 includes 18K$ speakers.
The upgrade to 400 I did two weeks ago ..
Do I threw my money?
Is Devialet continue to develop for the previous products?
What does it say about us as consumers ?

Anyway I vote Yes .. In case 2 PHANTOM units will preform better then my current setup I will sell my equipment .
But How will buy it ?

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By the way .. I asked if Phantom could be serve as sub and integrated with my current setup .
Devilaet answer :

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your message and interest in Phantom.

Phantom can be integrated with a Devialet eco system, but you can't use it as a sub; You still need speakers with your Devialet, but with Phantom you will be able to pair any phantom device with any Devialet to share the same music;

That will be possible with Dialog only, and you will have access to the Spark application on the Devialet.

I think Devialet people do not really mean to say Phantom is better than the D series. It will be a suicide to cannibalize their successful and core business with something new that obviously is not 100% guaranteed will be a success and by the look of things will generate less profits to bet sales even if successful.

What they are simply trying to achieve its too attract a new subset of customers who are not current Devialet owners. And their tag line "the best sound in the world" ideally has a hidden asterisk which to us the Devialet owners read as (* excluding the original D series)

For future development, I would not worry. I believe Devialet will continue to support and develop D series as this is well be the more profit generating business unit.

About Devialet response to your question, I guess it is good and bad news. Good that they confirm that D series will have access to Spark, and accordingly we benefit from what is raved as an excellent app, the bad thing is it seems it can only be achieved so far by connecting to a Dialog! I was hoping that they mention a firmware update to allow built in Dialog functionality and Spark usage without the need for an extra Dialog box.