Quote:Thanks for your reply. Some people didnt hear the difference and don't trust the after market power cable etc. and I respect them but in my case I believe there are differences.
The reason I ask this question cause I just got my Phantom classic silver pair and it's my first time to have this kind of speaker and im new in the forum. I have a main 2 channel setup so this Phantom speakers are new to me.
I like the sound of the Phantom if you set it up correctly and can compare them to my main 2 channel rig not far in sound.
So far I'm doing streaming with the phantom using optical. The new Devialet app was really good my firmware was 2.11.5
I read here in the forum that people having problem with the apps before but so far the apps running stable and good.
So Im using optical from denafrips iris and im using Aurender nh100 music streaming.
My Phantom speaker was in the stand they called it Tree. So the stand has own plug with white power cable and dont know what brand. And im having problems with the power cord cause the stand has its own plug for the power cable.
Thank you to those who replied to my post.
Regarding the cable managment inside the Tree you should try to avoid that for the clearest sound quality. I do have the trees and used it at first that way for awhile, great for the estetics. Then I changed to connect Power, ethernet and Toslink directly to the Phantoms and that alone made things clearer, more refined in my case. Remember when I made the change I had the cheap Oelbach power cable as replacement.
Indeed the Phantom Golds are of great quality when setup in an optimal way. My background is coming from DIY speaker with Highend stuff like Accuton speakers, Raal Ribbons driven by DEQX DSP time aligned measurment etc, 6x separate mono Hypex Ncore amps which means I have great experience testing different power cables to these amps and the power cable I would say is the most noticable improvment you can do in a HIFI setup.
In my setup I also use Toslink from Phantoms to a Mutec 3+ USB reclocker and from there toslink to TV, also connect Bluray to the Mutec.
To my surprise the toslink cable makes difference too. Remember Power cable would be the first thing I would do. Toslinks Ive tested 2 no names, Supra toslink that all are solid syntetics. Then I have tested AQ Carbon and AQ Vodka and QED reference optical Quartz that technically have multistrands of the optics. I have made some tests and I could hear differncies. I started out with a noname thinking toslink wouldnt matter, then got a second noname and they sounded completely different from eachother. Then got the above to try out and the nomeas are not as good as the rest. For example even for the TV one of the nonames and even the AQ Carbon didnt work at all in my setup, got things too bright in the top, the others are smooth.
So if you rely on toslink for primary music setup I would look into that cable link aswell, you might be in for a surprise. As with everything cables in Hifi you need to try it for yourself in your setup.
