I have recently returned to the adventure of trying to integrate Phantoms into my AV system. Given that I have abandoned them as primary/front channels, I thought they might make a perfect complement to my D120-driven music & front channels, because they (a) wouldn't have trailing wires to the back of the room and (b) also act as twin subwoofers to-boot!
I have managed some rudimentary success, using my HTPC to delay the fronts by 150ms to meet the Phantom delay (and route the sub channel to the Phantoms to achieve awsome LFE effects!), but it is inconsistent.
So, abandoning principle (a) I have aquired USB-to-Optical converters to feed each Phantom with independent L/R rear channels. Although this (disappointingly) only halves the delay, it IS far more predecitable & consistent.
However, my problem is I can't work out how to configure two Phantoms to dedicate themselves to their Optical inputs WITHOUT a dialog (which I do possess BTW). Everytime I use Spark to set up one as Solo, I can't setup the 2nd one because it assumes I've only got the one. I tried switching the 1st off while re-setting up the 2nd, but then I think Spark forgot about the first.
I think I might be battling the fact that Phantoms always want to share their optical feeds with a partner. And then volume control becomes an issue...
Any ideas how I can fool 2 Phantoms into operating solo at the same time on the same home network?
I have managed some rudimentary success, using my HTPC to delay the fronts by 150ms to meet the Phantom delay (and route the sub channel to the Phantoms to achieve awsome LFE effects!), but it is inconsistent.
So, abandoning principle (a) I have aquired USB-to-Optical converters to feed each Phantom with independent L/R rear channels. Although this (disappointingly) only halves the delay, it IS far more predecitable & consistent.
However, my problem is I can't work out how to configure two Phantoms to dedicate themselves to their Optical inputs WITHOUT a dialog (which I do possess BTW). Everytime I use Spark to set up one as Solo, I can't setup the 2nd one because it assumes I've only got the one. I tried switching the 1st off while re-setting up the 2nd, but then I think Spark forgot about the first.
I think I might be battling the fact that Phantoms always want to share their optical feeds with a partner. And then volume control becomes an issue...
Any ideas how I can fool 2 Phantoms into operating solo at the same time on the same home network?
JRiver v25 (Windows) >> 220Pro/CI >> PMC Twenty5.23 + twin KEF KC62 subs. One White Phantom.
