Why are HiFi entusiasts negative to Phantoms ?

[ogs]

I am not at all negative to Phantoms. I'd love to have a pair as my main speakers. As this would be stereo I'd need a Dialog, but I would rather go with just a pair of Phantoms. Problem is I am forced to go with Dialog to manage a pair of speakers. For a pair of stand alone Phantoms there is no way to assign left and right. I went as far as asking Vincent of Totaldac if he could deliver a d1-reclocker with L and R toslink outputs. Then I could use two Phantoms in "solo" (mono) mode and still have a proper stereo setup. The d1-reclocker has a very decent digital volume control, but Phantom defaults to 35% volume on power-on. I'd still need Spark to set the volume to something useful.
Vincent was very helpful and said he would consider providing a modified reclocker, but would not charge me in the event he could not make a good result. A modification would also imply changes to the code running in the FPGA. The price was very sensible IMHO.
In the end I decided not to go ahead with this setup. Bottom line is that Devialet makes this a difficult choice as there are too many 'ifs' and 'buts'.