17-Feb-2015, 00:35
(17-Feb-2015, 00:16)mixart Wrote: Man, I can't desire if I should go for Devialet Phantom Silver or Devialet Ensemble. I was not impressed by the bass of Ensemble, when I got a demo at home. I have just sold my B&W XT4 floor speaker, which were not a high-end speaker (cost €2750 for a pair) but I want to get rip of all cables and amplifiers. Maybe I should just be patient and wait the for Devialet Phantom Silver, which I order and ship at the end of march, but I can't ignore when many says, that Devialet 120/200 sounds much better with a decent loudspeaker, like the B&W speaker Ian talk about. I don't know what model it is but it doesn't look high-end.
The speaker being used, now I am home and looking at the B&W website, might have been a B&W CM8 which must be around €2,000.
You need to listen - but clearly a Devialet 120 plus CM8 speakers must be around €7,000 which is around twice the price of a pair of standard Phantoms.
I think Devialet would accept that the quality and input/output flexibility you get with the former is better than with the latter, and to my eyes visually much more acceptable.
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