Is the Phantom still bad for a home theater?

[njaiswal]

Argh. Catalina isn't properly supported yet.

I wouldn't give up hope.  The goal is definitely worth the effort.  The challenge is getting the audio stream into Dante.  If you don't want to deal with Devialet for the audinate adapters you can use from Micromedia (https://www.micromedia.ch/?portfolio=aes...interfaces).  I use these to get audio into Dante from Bluesound streamers in the bedrooms.  But they are bidirectional, meaning they can take Dante and convert it to optical.  Using Dante also gets around a limitation in the custom install mode for the reactors, which is their inability to select L/R channel in the optical stream.  Using Dante you can tell the adapters which channel to send to which reactor.  Let me know if you need more details.

Lastly, using the same family of phantoms for the home theater makes life much easier.  Unfortunately, I chose to mix Reactors and Premieres and it took me a bit to get everything in sync.  Its freaking amazing when I got it all working together. 

And if you want to spend a crazy amount of $$$ then pick up a processor from DataSat.  They will take the digital stream and convert it to Dante so you keep everything digital.   

Good Luck!