A review in "audiophilestyle" with plenty of insight!

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Mitchco is indeed very positive about Phantoms. His only real criticisms are frequency balance and lack of time alignment. The original white Phantom had a fabulous (nothing less!) in-room frequency response in my listening room. I'll add a measurement taken at the listening position with Audiolense (2016). You can see the rather nasty main standing wave at just under 50Hz and it's double at around 92Hz. Also some other irregularities up to 900Hz. But the general response from 10Hz (!) to over 20kHz is textbook with 20kHz some 10dB lower in level than 40Hz. The original Phantom did not have bass and treble exaggerated like Golds have. The tweeter in Gold is probably better than the one in Classic Phantom, but it is also a little too loud.
Audiolense dealt nicely with the uneven room response and I had a nice trial of Phantoms.

I've updated the image to show a simulation of the correction Audiolense did.