Found Gold with a Pair of Phantoms!

[Snoopy8]

Very impressive, especially given that you were already on an actively multi amplified system!
That's very telling in terms of quality that you have been able to obtain.

Thank you.  

To add to my story, I had a good but complicated system and also had the (expensive) urge to upgrade things.  I was frustrated at the complexity.

The impetus for the change came from:

• post in another forum from someone who switched to Phantom Golds from same brand active speakers
  
• this old Gold review from Steve Huff (photographer)
  
• a listen to a lonely Phantom Gold tucked in a corner at a Hifi shop 
  
• same retailer who had a sales promotion
  

From the audition, I could tell that the sound was as clean and detailed as my then existing setup, but not the stereo image. I took the gamble and discovered that the huge sound stage was the difference between the Golds and my old system.  Further work with convolution filters improved things even more. 

It was my Marie Kondo (expert on de-cluttering) moment! A simple system which produces high quality music.