High quality music

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When I visited Oxford Audio this time last year for the Devialet session (this years session is tomorrow by the way), I was told there is no point trying hi res files into the Phantoms. The DAC in the Phantoms cannot resolve hi res. It would take a complete re design to do do. Therefore the best rate possible is CD quality that Tidal hifi quality can deliver.

It was helpful advice because I was thinking of trying Qobuz hi res streaming but decided to stay with Tidal.

I think the best resolution possible with Phantoms is to use Tidal etc via Spark App through Dialog. This renders the music locally via Dialog and that is as good as you can get with Phantom/Dialog setup.


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The DAC used in the original Phantom is TI PCM1798 24bits/192kHz and therefore perfectly capable resolving Hires PCM. It would also be contradictory to the specs of all Phantom speakers that are specified to more than 22kHz hf range (CD range) and the -3dB point at 25kHz or even 27kHz in case of the Golds. Maybe Devialet said this about the Phantom Reactor.