Phantom competitors?

[GuillaumeB]

Yes Keith (Purite Audio) has been banging on about it on the Pink Fish Forum. Says its much better than Phantom (but he would wouldn't he) It is a straight forward class d amp with signal processing, none of the adh tech of Phantom - which may be good or bad depending on your point of view.

I attended a demo of these in Munich. Quite impressive but I don't think they are really competitors to Phantom for 2 reasons: 1) price: they are going to retail at 8k+ euros for a pair and 2) form factor: they are considerably bigger than the Phantoms, I think they weigh 15 kgs each.

They do plan on bringing out smaller versions (the "three" falls in the middle of the range and is their first model to be released) so that might change of course.

They do a clever thing of projecting the sound forward so that if you stand behind the speaker it is quite quiet, despite the presence of two drivers facing the back of the speaker. They played very loud with virtually no distortion and had a very clean and refined midrange. Plenty of bass too. Some good connectivity options including analog inputs, AES/EBU digital and WISA for wireless, and will come in many different colours.

I only heard the speakers in a recording studio so it would be interesting to see how they behave in real life conditions.

Guillaume