Phantom Gold - valve like treble

[Snoopy8]

Yeah I guess position is key with all that bass bouncing off to both sides and the rear

I use mine through a Dspeaker Anti-Mode which calms down a massive bass hump at about 50hz - I don’t have much choice on placement (not that I know it’s due to that - could just be the room in general)

Changing the position of the speakers and listening position can help reduce some small humps. Your big hump is a room mode due to the physical dimensions of the room.  I did look at the DSpeaker X4 but found that optical input on the Golds was not as good as UPnP. Am using Minimserver with convolution.

A single Gold Phantom review in a gadget magazine is not worth reading and has no credibility in my opinion. Why Devialet allows such reviews is beyond my imagination.

Unfortunately, most people buy them as lifestyle singles.