07-Apr-2016, 11:45
I have 4 Silver Phantoms and Dialogue in my primary listening room which is similar in size to yours, but engineered as an acoustically isolated "golden trapagon". Streamy's instructive comments apply. I spent a lot of time tweaking speaker placement using my ears, and test gear get to get a robust immersive listening experience for stereo music and video. Subjectively, even in video (TV, DVD, streamed) while only in stereo, the listening-viewing experience of other family members and friends is very close to that of my 7.2 reference system, which suggests that whenever Devialet releases the next generation Dialogue... the performance for 5.1/7.1/11.2 Phantom configurations may be spectacular.
Levinson 33 amps, Wilson Grand Slamm S3's, Levinson 32 ref pre and ad/da, Basis Ovation and Rega 40 with JSpall custom tone arms, Lyra, Ortofon & Grado cartridges, Marantz AV 8801, PSAudio phono pre, Devialet Dialog w 5 Gold Phantoms, Wilson powered subwoofer, Watch center, Wilson surrounds, Kaleidescape Movie server, Crestron AV controller and switch, 120 MBS docsis3 modem, 20 MBS xdsl modem, Peplink balance 20 router, Ruckus 802.11ac Wave 2 WAPS plus multi Pakedge WAPs, 48 port POE gigabit switch, NetGear 8TB NAS, Amazon Fire,ROKU and Apple TV gen 4, 12 core Mac Pro, Macbook Air Retina, 65" and 50" Runco TV's. Blue sound node 2, OPPO BDP105D, DSpeaker AntiMode 2.0, Octava HDMI/Optical switch, cabling Nordost for analog, Cardas and wireworld for digital/optical.
