Devialet's newest technology...?

[Eddye]

http://www.tuxboard.com/devialet-phantom-sound-center/






so, a round speaker with ADH and streaming capabilities... Didn't someone guess that already?

[thumb5]

10:07 Paris time and nothing at my place has imploded so far...

Thankfully true for me too.

Strangely, the down-counter on the phantomrising page is still running, suggesting either that something else is happening at midnight, or someone forgot to reset it when the 10:00 am announcement was made...

[PhilP]

Well, they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

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Actually some of the earlier guesses weren't that far off - 3000W output is about the same as that of a air heater...

[thumb5]

Apparently a completely stand-alone system? (No integration with existing Devialet equipment, as far as I can see, although it uses some of the same underlying engineering technology. Specifically, no mention of AIR.)

[edit] Not quite, I see there's a Toslink input.

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At that money, I wonder who it's aimed at. I doubt Sonos are going to lose sleep.

[PhilP]

Hmmm.. No connector for iDevices and no mention of UPnP or DLNA. I'm not sure what the 'Spark' application is - do they mean Apache Spark?

[Eddye]

Spark could be phantomAIR...

[thumb5]

I'd assumed Spark was some kind of control application to select what music was playing on what speaker(s).

[Confused]

But what does it sound like ...... ?

[Eddye]

TBH I'm totally unimpressed, a very predictable "new" device. I really don't care what it sounds like. I think this phantom-egg is as ugly as the Devialets are beautiful. I really do hope this will be a big seller for Devialet, but it's not for me.

[Rufus McDufus]

Hmm, their countdown doesn't quite seem to be in sync with the actual release which appears to be happening around about now.