Le Phantom est arrivée en Suisse!!!
I finally got to hear them. A single White on Friday and a stereo pair of Silvers yesterdy and I must say…they are FUN!
If not audiophile obsessed, a pair of Silvers could be endgame. Yes, they lack ultimate resolution in mids and upper mids… but the HF was pretty good and the bass can be a bit fat/exaggerated, but overall they work very well and can ROCK. Perfect party speakers too and they scale up nicely to 32 units playing in concert with each other. They passed the "cricket test" with Chris Jones -Roadhouses cut and were lovely with Thriller and Keith Dont Go. Rosanna's guitar rift was also very pleasing, but lacked that extra resolution of the "unfair to compare to" Goldmund Annatta (where you could hear the performers murmuring to each other).
All in all for CHF4K for a pair of Silver, I found it extremely competitive for the price and tempting in its simplicity. Easy to love…and I was prepared to not like them as much as I did. As a 2nd system…(or 2nd home) like in a Lake cabin or a Chalet… it's a no-brainer. Sonos on steroids.
What I would expect to see soon is that swanky bars and clubs will adopt them as near turnkey scalable solutions, given that they are easily wall mounted with a dedicated optional bracket.
The Silver weighed more than I thought just looking at them and ran a bit hot at the back vents. Me Likey!
