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Are Phantoms boring... now that they work perfect? - Krisp - 11-Apr-2018 (11-Apr-2018, 18:29)daibaron Wrote: Frankly ? Sorry to say, yes I’m happy too with my golds. The reason is simple. I got my music on an external 2TB SSD connected to my iMac which runs ROON. Since I ripped most of my music from CD I am good with AirPlay towards the Phantoms. Dialog is as needed hooked up via Ethernet to my rooter. Phantoms are supplied via Powerline and I have almost never have a dropout. Maybe if my iMac gets a hickup due to some load. But than I’m not concentrated listening anyway. Gesendet von iPad mit Tapatalk RE: Are Phantoms boring... now that they work perfect? - streamy - 11-Apr-2018 (11-Apr-2018, 18:29)daibaron Wrote: Frankly ? No problem for me, anymore. BT is anyway too low in quality, so I do not need it. DLNA is poor compared to Roon. Roon runs on an old MacMini. I use a Rpi3 with Digi+ board optically connected to a Phantom (have 2 Golds and a Silver). Wlan is sufficiantly stable in my case for all streaming up to 24/192k, not dropouts. I use Spark to stream from Qobuz and over Roon I stream Tidal, only because I have room correction filters from HAF running in Roon. But for new music exploration I prefer Qobuz in Spark over Tidal in Roon. My own library I play from Roon. A Roon extension allows me to control the Phantoms volume from an old Ipad. Wishes? Yes, RAAT and Qobuz integration in Roon, might unfortunately newer come, but great listening is what I do now rather than bother for what is not (yet?) available. RE: Are Phantoms boring... now that they work perfect? - daibaron - 11-Apr-2018 It wasn't my intention to kill the joy. I was just reacting to the thread title. Enjoy RE: Are Phantoms boring... now that they work perfect? - streamy - 11-Apr-2018 (11-Apr-2018, 21:52)daibaron Wrote: It wasn't my intention to kill the joy. No joy killed, you are absolutely right with what still needs to be improved with a few other things more like the optical input of Dialog that still has problems from time to time. But there are ways around and Spark is snappy and hires streaming with Spark got dead stable, even better than Roon. Usability and the UI is another thing. It‘s difficult to beat Roon. Are Phantoms boring... now that they work perfect? - kmjy - 11-Apr-2018 (11-Apr-2018, 18:29)daibaron Wrote: Frankly ? I never have that volume issue. Every method I connect presets to 35% volume. AirPlay. Bluetooth. DLNA. Local streaming, whatever. Always sets to 35% before a track plays. DLNA support is still in Beta, has worked flawlessly for me though. I’d just turn Bluetooth off. It’s probably the worst input method anyway. I don’t see many devices with Bluetooth security as it is. You either turn it on or you turn it off. Spark is built to allow you to pick music and play it. That’s what it does. I don’t see an issue with it. Never whatsoever have I ever had an Optical drop on Phantom, two or more Phantom, or Dialogue. They say Dialogue has a tiny crackle with Optical occasionally still but why can’t you just plug directly into your Phantom? It’s probably the same distance away as your Dialogue. See for every problem that there supposedly is there is always an alternative way to achieve the same results without a problem. Maybe you need to software update your system? The last three things you’re describing were resolved in previous firmware. I agree with everyone else I’m extremely happy with my system. I worry more about the sound than these picky things that aren’t an actual problem. In terms of sounds it’s incredible so yes, I’m still extremely happy and it doesn’t get boring because every time I turn them on I’m blown away!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk RE: Are Phantoms boring... now that they work perfect? - Gremlin - 12-Apr-2018 (11-Apr-2018, 03:31)pscampbe Wrote:(11-Apr-2018, 02:27)Jon Wrote: Just a joke really but with the Phantoms working pretty much perfectly we don't have anything to complain about anymore haha. You see less and less posted on the forum - the questions have been answered and the set-up is solid. Maybe different colors and surround sound HT aren't coming - maybe Spark is as good as it will get ...... all that's left to do is... buy more Phantoms it's kind of satisfying to just turn them on and they work. Is this how regular people live stuff just works? haha I bet your neighbours love you! RE: Are Phantoms boring... now that they work perfect? - mixart - 12-Apr-2018 No, they are not boring to me. I've had two Phantom Silver from 2015>2017. Sold them and bough two Phantom Gold in the summer 2017 and I never looked back. They sounds awesome, love the design and the simplicity. Never going back to a traditionel Hifi with cables, amplifier and speakers. I use them both for music, television and bluray movies. When I get an OLED 4K Tv, I think I will try out an Apple TV 4K for movies. Hope the sound quality is good enough from an Apple TV. RE: Are Phantoms boring... now that they work perfect? - JDtheJD - 14-Apr-2018 In my experience of just over a year with 2 gold phantoms, I definitely do not find them boring; love listening to them and do not regret the decision to purchase them. I literally pine for opportunities to listen to them without distraction. That said, the phantom experience as a whole is not entirely satisfactory due to a variety of shortcomings ranging from waking up in the middle of the night to the speakers suddenly playing, to software frustrations like there being a lack of a "go to" EQ, to hardware issues like the Dialogue needing to be replaced. In fact, I wish my experience with the speakers was more boring in that I'd like my listening sessions to be consistently predictable. For the moment, the sessions are akin to the feeling I have when watching championship figure skating, I never know if the effort is going to render a moment of artistic history or a face plant. For this reason I am extremely selective as to whom I recommend these speakers. |