Thinking of going back to Phantoms :)

[eniriop]

Having moved from Silver to Gold, to Ls50w (for a few days) then back to Gold - then to Kii Three.....

I am thinking of going back to Phantoms after selling my Kii (having bought some in ear headphones which I couldn’t really afford and made me realise £7k on speakers is a bit overkill for me  )

Anyway - having been out the game for a while I have a few questions

1) Can they repair classics yet? It was one of the reasons I got out as to started to worry about the value crashing once out of warrantee.

2) I never really played above 70 - usually more like 60. How close are the little reactors to the gold sound wise if I don’t need the extra power?

3) Any opinions on Gold phantoms compared to a Devialet d200 amp and some £2k ish used SAM enabled bookshelfs like the Atom / PMC fact 3 / focal / raidho 

I started lusting over one of their amps - but if the phantom electronics / sound quality are pretty much the same then probably I would go for them again as I don’t really want to start box swapping again 

Any opinions welcomed

I own a pair of gold and a pair of reactor 600.  90% of the time I listen to the reactors 600 on my open air terrace rather than to the Golds in the living room (I live in Tahiti).  They sound fantastic in the open air when there are no walls behind or in front of them (even better imaging with DOS2 compared to DOS 1).  For casual listening I see no difference between the gold and the reactor, they are both excellent when listening at moderate volume levels. And now with DOS 2 you can set up the audio delay parameter to minimum so that there is no audio delay when watching TV with optical cable connected to the Devialet Gold or reactors. Also two big plus for the reactors are the fact that they are easy to move around and that they have touch sensitive buttons to stop the music or change the volume level without having to reach for the smartphone.