Room correction with Phantom

[alandbush]

However, SHD is the only alternative if one wants to send L only and R only to respective Phantoms without Dialog (i.e. Phantom in Solo mode)

There are other alternatives but, yes, they are few and far between.
You have to think outside the HiFi box to discover them.

I found the RME Digiface, with 4x Toslink outputs, that connects via USB to a PC.

I use this connected to a second hand Dell laptop running Windows music applications, such as Qobuz, Amazon Music HD, Lumin, Tunebrowser etc, through VST ‘room correction’ plugins to ASIO drivers.

I am more than happy with the result and because it is a Windows OS, I could use Dirac, Roon, Volumio or any other new flavour of the month product.

Btw - I am a fan of MiniDSP products having previously had a 10x10 and OpenDRC DIs.
I’m currently using a UDIO-8 to transfer TV/Netflix audio into the laptop for subsequent output through the Digiface post room correction.