Devialet Phantom Gold // Reactor 900

[Manny]

I had to eliminate Devialet's software in order to prevent my wife from literally throwing all of my phantoms out various windows in our house.  As a result, my entire family is able to use the phantoms in whichever room they're in, control the volume from a physical remote (Savant), watch movies in TV rooms on the Phantoms, and setup "whole house" audio without me getting involved.  My system is so stable now that I'm bored because I have nothing to tinker with... :-) 

I love the sound the Phantoms produced and went to extraordinary lengths to get my setup stable.  Spend the time and energy to get them to work if you love them.  Otherwise, maybe its time to move on...

Hi njaiswal, I have experienced similar issues with my pair of Phantom Golds. Could you please describe in more detail your “band aid” fix?

Hi Manny,
You need to put the Phantoms in Optical Direct Mode (https://devialetchat.com/Thread-DOS2-Opt...irect+mode).  Once that is done then you have a couple of options
1.  Use a Sonos/Bluesound as your audio streamer and connect the optical out to a splitter and then from the splitter to each phantom.  Configure each phantom to read either left or right audio stream.
2.  Use Dante as your method to send audio to the speakers.  Use a Dante dongles to connect a receiver to the dante network and use it to manage the sound from the phantoms.  Use a dante dongel to convert dante to optical and connect to the phantoms.  (https://devialetchat.com/Thread-Phantom-...nte?page=2)

Hope this helps

Hi njaiswal, 

Thank you for your clarifications.  Unfortunately, this is beyond my ability level and it seems it is time to put the Devialtets up for sale. This is such a shame as I thought it was all straightforward when I bought them 2 years ago but it has been one issue after the other.  I still have a pair of dependable Bose speakers I have had for maybe 20 years.  I think I will revert to these unless a miracle happens.