28-Nov-2015, 22:36
(27-Nov-2015, 13:14)Extra Gravity Wrote: Set up question.
I was wondering if my two Phantom Silvers +1 Dialogue and laptop source(via wifi) could operate, isolated from my domestic wifi. IE could I take my system somewhere as use it, say if there was no wifi where I was? Hope that make sense!?
Thanks in advance
Dan
That's a very good question. I would love to hear an authoritative answer. My guess is no -- because one of the first things the D-mob tell you to do when you set up is to get your Dialog connected to your existing wifi network.
For that application you might want to look at the JBL Xtreme. For $600, you can get two of them. They play very loud and pretty well, they have great battery life and they're engineered more ruggedly than the Phantoms, with outdoor use in mind. Infinitely more transportable than Phantoms. They are set up to intelligently play as a stereo pair with a bluetooth source, without any further hardware or internet connection. JBL realized that if you were willing to give up the high end idea that Devialet had -- providing the option of turning the Phantoms into a home-wide sound system with potentially many sound sources -- they could vastly simplify the setup, and they have. They definitely rival the Phantoms' sound at most reasonable, and even some quite loud, volume levels.
At that price, you really cannot go wrong.
And one thing Devialet should do is offer this option for 2-Phantom stereo use, and not make people buy the Dialog for that config. I don't see how it helps them to require that the Dialog be part of the deal, just limits their sales as I'd imagine most of the margin is in the Phantoms.
