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Very nice signal chain!
The Mutec would probably do an even better job if connected after the DDRC, but then you'd have to change the SMS-200 too as I guess you can not use the USB port on the DDRC as a digital audio input. Optical direct to one of the Phantoms or via Dialog?
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My experience (with Whites over a weekend, before I got the Mutec) is that Phantoms are just as sensitive to room interaction as any other high end speaker. I got very good results with room correction and Phantoms in my room. I remember having reservations about some midrange colouration, but I believe this has been fixed in Golds. Hopefully also in the new Elevate which is probably the one I'll buy. The Phantoms are real technical master pieces. Pity Dialog is not quite up to the task of dealing with Phantom excellence.
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Fortunately Dialogue is a small piece - both in size and cost - of the puzzle, and therefore an easily upgraded/replaced/improved part. I have the Elevates on trial at the moment. Wishing I could EQ them easily (see my thread on EQ for dummies), and therefore wondering if the Golds would better address my concerns (as the bigger better part of the puzzle long term)... I’m only 15 days into my 45 days trial. Nothing says I can’t do two 45 day trials at the same time? Who knows? Perhaps I’ll keep both in an immersive 4 channel and/or cinema setup down the road...
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Yes, Dialog is small and cheap, but Devialet actually promised that Dialog would handle multi channel streaming to Phantoms. Now it barely handles stereo hi-rez. I'd prefer to send sound directly to Phantoms, bypassing Dialog completely. This is very difficult today. The new Dante dongle may change this, but we still do not know if Devialet will sell it to us (as opposed to installers) and we do not know which resolutions it will support. As a Roon user I can hope that a future development will enable direct streaming to Phantoms over ethernet. We'll see.
If you can have both Gold and Elevate home at the same time you'd be in a position to properly compare them. I'll be looking forward to that!
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