Phantom II Custom 5.0 surround system experience and suggestions

[mcallega]

An excellent write-up for those people seeking to do a home theatre (HT) setup with Phantoms. Thank you.

Having done a Dante setup with Golds, I agree that using the Custom is a lot simpler and more in line with what most people understand with installing HT. And cheaper too, without the need for Dante adaptors or buying the JBL!

Thanks,
           if new surround processors will have Dante by default and at a more affordable price then the discussion I think should be on the quality of their DAC. 

By having Dante you will transfer the sound digitally to the speakers. You can still transfer the sound digitally via AES/EBU but I am not aware of a surround processor with separate channels output as AES/EBU and I am not sure what the advantage would be.