New Devialet Phantom Ultimate - listening impressions

[Johnnydev]

The 108db Ultimate sound truly phenomenal.

Compared to the previous series, these are truly high-end.

If you need room correction or to accommodate different tastes, this is fully customizable with the 6-band equalizer and the cinema/music/podcast options.

In one word: they are incredibly amazing!

Do you know if they support DIRAC room correction natively?  I've found that my phantoms really open up with DIRAC active in my rooms.

 No sorry, i’can’t help you

[ogs]

@njaiswal , @booshtukka  I asked Devialet Support about Ultimates. In the answer they said future "custom" versions will be based on the two Ultimate models, maybe during -26 (my speculation). The current Phantom II Custom has native Dante support so if the Ultimate Customs gets the same input module as the current Phantom II Custom, Dante should be supported.

@Johnnydev  is there any sign of a "Optical Direct" setting in the Ultimate app?

Thanks for checking ogs.  I'm not a big fan the customs because thats all they can do... so if my needs change then I can't convert the phantoms back to "normal" use... I guess the problem is integrating the Dante hardware on the speaker... that takes up real estate on the board so it may make sense for them to offer a custom version.  

Hopefully I can hear a pair the next time I'm in NYC...

The problem would be that the "normal" Phantoms does not have AES/EBU input and none of the Ultimates have analog inputs so this would not work for integrators.There is probably a good reason for Devialet to put Dante, AES/EBU / analog inputs on the Custom.