Jeff Fritz on Phantom @ CES

[amabrok]

Yes, an excellent summary Flohmann, far more interesting an informative than anything I've read from the official press!  

Picking up on Thumb’s point, could you see if they were actually using Spark?  I notice on Devialet’s website that Spark is still listed as “coming soon”, despite the fact that they are taking orders for Dialog.  I am assuming that Spark will be available when the first Dialog deliveries start in a couple of weeks, but you never know with Devialet.

Regarding your point #2.  Have you ever heard the Devialet Ensemble?   It strikes me that two Phantoms with Dialog would be a little cheaper than the Ensemble.   From your comments, I wouldn’t be surprised if many folk found that they actually preferred the Phantom option to the Ensemble with respect to sound quality.  Although if you wanted to run a turntable or multiple input sources then the Ensemble would have many advantages.

I had the chance to listen to two Phantoms on a handful of my own music selection, and compared to my home configuration (D120 + Apertura ArmoniA) which is at least as good as the Ensemble (in fact the SAMed ArmoniA have a better bass extension that the GT1), I can tell you that the pair of Phantom were at least as qualitative as my home configuration, with probably a better bass extension and their spherical shape with the concentric medium and tweeter were giving a stereo image that was at least as good as my configuration if not better.

Therefore yes, I would not be surprised that people having to choose between an Ensemble and a pair of Phantom would actually choose the Phantoms from a pure SQ perspective.

Interesting.

In your audition was it Phantom or Phantom Silver?


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