This alien look-alike egg is actually a top-shelf speaker from French company Devialet – called Phantom Implosive Sound Center.
Audiophiles will always find new ways to hear crystalline highs, or low bass sounds that give your tummy tremors. If you’ve got $2000 on your hand and nothing to do with them I would immediately tell you to put them in a bank, but since I’m not your momma I’ll tell you to go crazy and buy the Phantom speaker!
Devialet’s speaker uses a traditional power socket, it can connect to an intelligent audio router, and it can eve use Bluetooth, and WiFi through the Spark application.
Devialet makes its presence in the states with two models a) 750 watts, and b) 3000 watts – pre-order it now, and get it as soon as September.
Even if you aren’t a part of the niche that Devialet markets its Phantom speaker, you have to applaud the state of the art device. It weighs 23 pounds, and its made out of polycarbonate, and aluminium.
Devialet makes their own chips in order to ensure that audiophiles get the best experience out of their products – the Phantom speaker has their Analog Digital Hybrid chip which provides a true, and spectacular digital amplification.
The Phantom speaker automatically adjusts the volume so it can’t be blown out by curiosity, or recklessness – their chip takes care of this, while at the same time providing a distortion-free audio session.
This compact technology that involves pressure levels associated with a rocket launch is the fruit of 10 years of hard work, and $30 million of funding.
You can play music through Devialet’s optical input, or through its Spark app – available on iOS, Mac, and Android. You can connect your computer, or mobile device to the WiFi network as the audio router, and the Spark app will help you set up.
The app will let you play music from your local storage, or from Deezer, and Qobuz – Devialet is French, so go figure. The company has hinted that Tidal might be supported in the near future. I don’t use any of these three so this might be a deal breaker for me – give me Spotify, and Google Play support, and I might think of selling a kidney to buy your product Devialet.
Devialet wasn’t designed just to look spacey, but acoustic laws were taken into consideration so the Phantom speaker provides the best experience possible.
No review in the world will be able to express how a speaker sounds, so if you’re interested in buying the Phantom speaker I highly recommend you don’t pre-order it, and just visit a retail shop and try it out. Here’s a sample of how it sounds.
Going to buy a Devialet Phantom Speaker? Don’t forget to invite me to the party!
