10-Sep-2017, 23:03
(02-Jul-2017, 18:30)Cyral Wrote: Hi all,If you feel the phantom gold bright and fatiguing, it must be because one of the following:
I would like to hear your experience with the Phantom Gold regarding the brightness. I have the feeling that they (2.0) sound a bit bright. With certain songs I feel some fatique in my ears.
I'am coming from the Kef Ls50 wireless, and with the kefs I didn't have this "issue"
They are only a few days old, so might be because of that..
- a room too small or too bright (with a lot of glass surfaces for example). Any room becomes fatiguing as you turn up the volume, each room as a maximum volume before fatigue comes in due to reverberation of treble sound on hard surfaces.
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- you listen in a small room from a place too close to the phantom's tweeters.
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- you listen to old CD recordings of the 70s or 80s (example: streaming old CDs of Dire Straits instead of the remastered versions). All CDs from the 70s and 80s have terribly fatiguing highs.
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- you listen to low resolution streaming, :
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- you are listening with bluetooth mode.
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- you are used to speakers that don't have a linear response in the treble zone up to 20khz : those speakers are more forgiving of badly recorded or low quality resolution streaming, therefore they sound less fatiguing when listening to low resolution streaming or to streamings of old CDs of the 70s.
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It is also true that the phantoms need some breaking in, much like most high end speakers (I have noticed that most show rooms don't allow the phantoms to break in enough, so that the phantoms never sound as good as they do at my home)
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If none of the above is working, may be you are not ready to listen to the beautiful linear music of the phantom golds, then you may be you should settle for some lesser "forgiving" speakers...
2 phantom Gold
2 phantom Reactor
Dione soundbar
Spotify connect
Apple music
Audirvana 3.5.44 for Mac
2 phantom Reactor
Dione soundbar
Spotify connect
Apple music
Audirvana 3.5.44 for Mac