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RE: Advice sought: Phantom's worth it? - Plainview - 02-May-2017 2 Golds and I don't even check any of the hifi forums or classified sites anymore; following twenty years of upgradeitis! I moved from a setup that was about €15k to €20k (802 Diamond speakers, B&W subs, DAC direct into Power AMP) and the Golds are better, way better. I have no problems with the App - I stream 90% of my stuff from Tidal and the rest is Airplay with iTunes on a Macbook. RE: Advice sought: Phantom's worth it? - dasun - 02-May-2017 so I am basically looking into getting two Phantom Gold as well, but after reading tons of reviews and posts I still have a few questions. I am coming from B&O Beolab 20 active speakers and I am trying to decide now between the Phantoms, active Dynaudio Focus XD60 speakers or a passive combination consisting of B&W 804D3 and an amplifier. I will use the speakers for listening to vinyl, TV, some PS4, a Meridian Music Server and Blu-Ray. 1) As far as I understand, the TV, PS4 and BluRay performance of the Phantoms will not be usable, because of the sound delay. Is that correct? 2) There is no stand-by, so the speakers are basically on all the time (like Sonos)? 3) There seems to be only one optical input. How can I connect all the above mentioned devices? Are there any pre-amps or DACs with optical outputs? The Devialet are a lot cheaper than the other mentioned alternatives, giving me about a 5.000€ savings. So in addition to the Devialets I could get a Bose Lifestyle for all my TV and Blu-Ray needs. Thanks for any advice! RE: Advice sought: Phantom's worth it? - gelasma - 02-May-2017 I have two golds, absolutely great! I heard about the Phantoms some time ago but found it too fancy to consider. This spring I was looking around to find a decent sound system and stumbled over the Phantoms again. The gold series totally got me. What I like is:
I have no comparison to the silver. But what I heard the difference is quite noticeable, so go for the gold if you can afford. If not, save more and then get the gold ;-) RE: Advice sought: Phantom's worth it? - interestedphantom - 03-May-2017 Thanks to all for the feedback. I've heard quite a mix in all these responses. However, I took the plunge yesterday. My SO and I went to listen to a few different speakers (B&O, Sonos, etc). Then I took her to listen to the Phantoms. She had tears in her eyes. Partially this was because of the money we were about to spend, but the music sounded so good... So two golds, a dialog, two trees and the care package (we got 5 percent off everything). So far everything went almost without a hitch (trying to signup for a Devialet account in Spark fails miserably). But it sounds fantastic, no clicks, pops, hisses, anything. Very surreal experience setting them up - this alien fish that hums and huffs and puffs then sings beautifully! Many thanks to the forum for the feedback. RE: Advice sought: Phantom's worth it? - MountainGuy - 03-May-2017 Super. May you have many years of enjoyment. There's really nothing quite like it on earth - so small and yet plays like a full sized floor stander, and without all the cables. This of course when it works properly which it does for me. RE: Advice sought: Phantom's worth it? - streamy - 05-May-2017 After the latest Spark update I suffered from drop-outs in streaming from both Qobuz and Tidal. It turned out that this coincided with a FW update of my Asus router due to security problem. After lots of configuration changes I could more or less iron out a stable hires streaming. So it is not always Devialet to blame and network or more precise internet streaming audio will remain a challenge as long as the entire chain can not be managed by one manufacturer. Streaming of local files always worked flawlessly, which brought me to try to find the problem outside of Phantom/Dialog/Spark. And indeed the problem came from a new router FW unluckily timed together with a Spark update. Advice sought: Phantom's worth it? - paolo_c - 06-May-2017 (28-Apr-2017, 16:00)da2001 Wrote: Always. Thank you da2001! Dac plays @ 24bit/192kHz with dialog in optical connection or no more than 44kHz? RE: Advice sought: Phantom's worth it? - ragwo - 06-May-2017 (06-May-2017, 22:50)paolo_c Wrote:(28-Apr-2017, 16:00)da2001 Wrote: Always. The optical inputs on Phantom and Dialog supports 24/192 RE: Advice sought: Phantom's worth it? - NEP - 15-May-2017 I got 2 Golds, no problem what so ever. I finaly stop looking for upgrades and save my selv a lot of money. I use them on tv/film and music spark, tidal, spotify all sound very good. |