Phantoms not supporting anything higher than 24bits/48Khz

[quagga]

What frustrates me is many unknowns. Otherwise we all have ears and some predilection in sound and we can hear and like it or discard it. However even when I am unable to discern a difference between two sounds, one kept fixed 192 kHz hi-res at all steps of the signal path without any downsampling and upsampling and the other downsampled from 192kHz down to 48kHz, I would tend to acquire and play 192 kHz music files (and invest in such streamers) , as long as I do not have any signal drop or similar problems due to data bandwidth issues be it wireless or wired. This is purely psychological. It’s like wine tasting, whenever you know the price a very expensive wine that is not favored in a blind test, is suddenly great tasting and it really tastes better because we know its price. I believe this also applies to music in some level. Therefore even when it doesn’t make any difference I would opt for better resolution if it does not cost me too much.

Or replace 192 with 96 above.

I do not think and expect Phantoms to sound better than many other options, especially the Reactors I will be considering; probably worse but I will hear that when I test them. What I want to see whether they are OK and pleasing as there is no other speaker in this room friendly, small, blending form factor which is what I want for my room. Black Reactors fit the bill. However this will not stop me from trying to get best sound out if it, be it real or imaginary (psychologically enhanced) Devialet is not a transparent company. They do not even share measurement graphs of their speakers in ideal conditions.