Gold Phantom review - Steve Huff

[Gremlin]

That's it? You don't listen as well?

No. What would be the point?

Ok, if I were to buy a new set of speakers, I would prefer to listen to them in my own room first. So as to be sure that they would work there.

But electronics (DACs, amplifiers, streamers etc) if properly designed are all going to sound exactly the same as each other these days (as long as they are operating within their design parameters). Transparent (ie, doing the job WELL within the limits of human perception) is the best/all we can ask of them, and they do it in spades.

And now, active speakers are so good, I'd even buy a pair (if I could afford such) on specs/measurements alone.

At present, I'd go for the Kii Threes. Money is the only barrier. And I certainly don't want a "signature" sound. What the musicians and engineers did, please.