My Phantom voyage

[ragwo]

My head is thumping, my throat is sore and I'm full of self pity. As you probably can tell I've caught a severe kind of manflu. While waiting for the test result to confirm that I'm just whining, I will kill some time on the next part of the Phantom dissection.

First, it's time to end the endless discussion of what is best of solid core and multi strand speaker cables. As Devialet is always right, their doing decides. After all they claimed that the Phantom couldn't be repaired.
   

As you can see, Devialet uses two metal rods connecting the woofers to the amp. That's that you might say, but you can see that they use multi strand from the rods to the spider. So the endless quarrel can continue, thankfully. Without quarrels, hifi is dead. 

Metal rods aren't the most flexible things, they might bend or snap if there is applied a bit too much force. To minimise the risk of making a mess of the assembly of the Phantom, Devialet has made guide cups for the metal rods. Quite clever. 
   

Another thing to notice is the washers used to secure an accurate fit of the eggshells. It seems like the number of washers is individually for each speaker. One of the Phantoms had two on each bolt, one had three on a couple of them. A bit of tape, to avoid crawling around on the floor swearing and sweating while looking for invisible washers, is good use of ehhh tape.
   

Voilà. No crawling for me. 
   

I will end this chapter of the Phantom story with a serious warning. 
   
See you on the other side!