Thinking of going back to Phantoms :)

[njaiswal]

Having moved from Silver to Gold, to Ls50w (for a few days) then back to Gold - then to Kii Three.....

I am thinking of going back to Phantoms after selling my Kii (having bought some in ear headphones which I couldn’t really afford and made me realise £7k on speakers is a bit overkill for me  )

Anyway - having been out the game for a while I have a few questions

1) Can they repair classics yet? It was one of the reasons I got out as to started to worry about the value crashing once out of warrantee.

2) I never really played above 70 - usually more like 60. How close are the little reactors to the gold sound wise if I don’t need the extra power?

3) Any opinions on Gold phantoms compared to a Devialet d200 amp and some £2k ish used SAM enabled bookshelfs like the Atom / PMC fact 3 / focal / raidho 

I started lusting over one of their amps - but if the phantom electronics / sound quality are pretty much the same then probably I would go for them again as I don’t really want to start box swapping again 

Any opinions welcomed

Hi!
I have both Golds and Reactor 900s and have played the same track on both speakers.  IMHO the Golds have better highs at normal listening volume and better lows at high volume.  The Reactors provide an amazing experience for their size.  They literally can fill a 12'x14' room with sound without sounding brittle or compressed.  I would rate the sound stage of the Reactors to be equivalent to the Golds.  If you don't need the power, don't have an immense room to fill and aren't too picky about midrange/high reproduction, then the Reactors would be my go to speaker now.