Is Reactor 600 high end?

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I am somewhat disappointed to see that Devialet has halted my plan to purchase a pair of Reactor 600 (now the Phantom II 95dB) by limiting the sample rate. I was looking forward to becoming a Devialet owner again. It's not the limitation of 48kHz itself that is the problem, but the way Devialet has done it. Who knows what they will do in the future!

I think when the limitation of 48k is not a game stopper for you, I would pull the trigger, now that RAAT is implemented. Maybe wait for a few days to see if the implementation on the Phantom II is reliable. I have strongly the impression that Devialet had implemented in DOS2 the limitation of 48k to reliably use wireless or networked stereo and multi room streaming on home networks, which is state of the art and RAAT certification forced them to be transparent as this is part of the protocol to transparently show the full audio path. Something, not many networked audio systems show. From that point it is difficult to get better solutions outside of professional equipment. Probably, but I so far have no proof for it DOS1 with the Dialog was more ambitious, but in many configurations and households failed. Not with me, that’s why I still keep my system on DOS1, but have no way so far to measure or test if 24/192 gets to the DAQ in my first series Gold Phantoms. I stick to DOS1 and RPi’s via optical until I will find out DOS1 is/was also limited to 48k. In my case I do it because I purchased about 500+ albums with 96k or higher that would not make much sense to play. But do my ears and brain hear the difference to omit the RAAT comfort? I do not know. I know for sure that the best MP3 resolution is audibly inferior when played on the Phantoms vs. CD quality red book recordings. This I can distinguish in blind testing. So, I’m sort of hesitant to go the DOS2 route, but when the 48k specs is not a killer for you then the Phantom line is really great, precise, low distortion, accurate, small foot print, great WAF, no second I would hesitate to rebuy them. In the end it is a good day to see RAAT in the Phantoms to have transparency in the signal chain and this with hopefully every ®evolution from now on