Power off Phantom?

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I have them on 24x7 and no issues. What is this misbehaviour you're referring to?

These are some problems I've noticed. Not all at once and no pattern displayed.

Delay (1-2s at worst) between picture and sound (sound coming after picture).
Spark freezes.
Distorting/metallic sounds comes and goes.
Dialog and phantoms get really hot over time.

In any case I would like to be able to turn them off somehow. Pulling the plug does not seem like the right thing to do.

Can you expand on the delay issue, please?

Thanks.

I don't know about eibets problem but there is a delay on the optical input. This is what Devialet sent me a few weeks ago:

The latency you are referring to is approximately a delay of 160ms.

Our engineers are currently working to reduce this latency but it is not the case yet.

So there is a degree of lip sync problems with TV currently inherent with the Phantom but not to the extent described above. To be honest it doesn't bother me that much but would be better reduced.

I have been using my my Humax TV tuner connected to the optical input on my Dialog instead of through my surround system for a while. Whatever latency there is connected like this is normally negligible, but a couple of times it has been much bigger. I tried quitting and re-launching Spark which didn't fix it, then removing the optical input from the playlist (click the little x on the icon) then re-selecting it. This fixed my problem.