24-Oct-2019, 07:54
Am delighted with my pair of Phantom Gold. It makes for a superb stereo system with a wide and full sound stage, lots of detail and good resolution. Instruments and voices sound natural with good tonal balance between the bass, mids and highs. While it is best in the main listening position, the Golds perform well off axis with the music filling the room.
The Golds are on Triangle S04 speaker stands and Isoacoustics Aperta 100 stands. Together, both stands provided vibration isolation and positioning at ear level. The music setup is in an open plan family room with minimal room treatment. There are heavy curtains on the right of photo covering glass sliding doors. Broadband absorption panels on the back window counter reverb (echo), and are removed when not playing music.
Using UPnP to connect to the Golds, with BubbleUPnP on a Samsung tablet controlling the music from a NAS. BubbleUPnP also provides access to Tidal. Running convolution DSP using Minimserver on an Intel NUC, which took the sound quality up another level.
It has clearly surpassed the previous complicated set up costing more than 3 times.
Truly found gold in a simple setup with a pair of Phantom Golds!
