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RE: Any in depth Reactor reviews or users here? - WesCrackin - 21-Jun-2019 (20-Jun-2019, 01:13)Mr_Bill Wrote: There are some interesting comments from some very respectable forum members, comparing Stereo Reactor vs Stereo Phantom Gold and not hearing much of any difference. The thread is from May June below. I am just sharing my findings. I think I made it clear that I personally can't compare my Reactors to Golds as I don't own the latter. What I can and did say is my Reactors can't hold a torch to my main system. My wife can hear it, so can the kids and my friends. But then neither of us is a "respectable forum member" so we probably just don't know any better.. RE: Any in depth Reactor reviews or users here? - Mr_Bill - 21-Jun-2019 Wes, Thank you for sharing your findings. I should have said that better initially so sorry about that. You have a really nice system and great observations! I'm really interested in the new Stereo Reactor pair but have never heard them. I thought the other Gold vs Reactor comparison was really interesting too to share. Great to hear the different perspectives from the members and we are all respectable members! Thank you for your contributions to the forum! RE: Any in depth Reactor reviews or users here? - ogs - 23-Feb-2020 (04-Mar-2019, 20:30)ogs Wrote: I had a brief listen to a single Reactor on Saturday. A shop in town had it on display together with the three Phantom models. I wrote this back in March 2019. We finally know the crossover for the front driver:a high-ish 525Hz at 24dB/okt. (from a review in Soundstage: https://www.soundstagesimplifi.com/index.php/equipment-reviews/98-devialet-phantom-reactor-900-active-loudspeakers ) A different posting on ASR https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/devialet-phantom-reactor-900-measurements-now-with-spinorama.9963/post-269112 shows the step response of the Reactor. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?attachments/step-response-png.39247/ Apart from the fact that the front driver is connected with inverted polarity, the step response is very nice... RE: Any in depth Reactor reviews or users here? - torikelz4545 - 21-Jan-2021 (23-Feb-2020, 22:10)ogs Wrote: the step response is very nice... Looks better than Phantom Gold. Mitch Barnett measured Gold (CA Forum) and the woofer was slightly lagging behind other 2 drivers. Not sure why this wasn't DSP time aligned by Devialet when they have the chance. RE: Any in depth Reactor reviews or users here? - ogs - 21-Jan-2021 Reactor is not time aligned either unfortunately. Devialet seems to ignore this (in my view extremely important) aspect. The internal DSP should have plenty capacity to make Phantoms time coincident. That is one reason room correction is effective. Most solutions correct the impulse response to create a proper wave front. RE: Any in depth Reactor reviews or users here? - torikelz4545 - 21-Jan-2021 (21-Jan-2021, 14:14)ogs Wrote: Reactor is not time aligned either unfortunately. Devialet seems to ignore this (in my view extremely important) aspect. The internal DSP should have plenty capacity to make Phantoms time coincident. That is one reason room correction is effective. Most solutions correct the impulse response to create a proper wave front. Agreed, such a wasted opportunity given all the other DSP that is already happening in there. I would use digital room correction to sort this but it should be 'perfect' out the box - many other DSP speakers do this. KEF have this figured out - even their cheapest LSX: https://www.stereophile.com/content/kef-lsx-wireless-loudspeaker-system-measurements RE: Any in depth Reactor reviews or users here? - ogs - 21-Jan-2021 Yes + D&D, Kii, Dynaudio... Roon could handle a separate convolution filter (supplied by the speaker manufacturer) for near field (echo free) impulse correction followed by a amplitude-only correction for the listening position (from REW for example). Bernt of Audiolense does not believe in this method, however. Better to do it all from the listening position in his view |