Phantom Premiere and Dante

[njaiswal]

Hi Everyone,
I spent this weekend totally reconfiguring my phantoms to use Dante as the audio input.  I was able to work with a local custom installer and purchase 5 Dante optical adapters (https://www.audinate.com/products/dante-...er?lang=en) and 3 AVIO adapters (https://www.audinate.com/products/device...naloginput).  I'm fortunate that my preamp has balanced outputs and am using it to control sources and volume on the phantoms.  

I'm simply blown away at the improved sound quality I was able to achieve with this configuration than my old one (using parts ordered from Amazon).  The phantoms sound "huge" again.  Everything just sounds better.  Surprisingly setup was extremely simple and straightforward.  Once my house is ready, I'm going to fully retrofit all of my phantoms to use Dante.  It's the only way I can ensure that they work flawlessly in my environment. 

Niten

Hi Mr.
I have  one  question.

Is Symetrix Radius AEC-2 absolutely necessary when configuring 5 channels of home theater using dante with Phantom Gold?  Is it impossible to configure the system without that?

Thank you.

Hi There!
You don't need a Symetrix if all of your phantoms are from the same family (all Premiere or all Reactor).  Once you mix and match, then you need "something" (in my case it is a Symetrix) to add delays to the Premiers so that they're in alignment with the Reactors.

Hope this helps.