Apple is now showcasing the revolutionary Devialet Phantom wireless speaker in Apple Stores throughout the U.S. For those who have never heard a Devialet Phantom, now there’s an opportunity to listen and admire the Phantom or the Silver Phantom. This is the best wireless speaker ever designed and Apple agrees it deserves to be featured in Apple Stores.
As audioXpress reported, the Devialet Phantom is a unique wireless speaker, combining the company’s expertise in audio amplification and digital processing with a truly revolutionary speaker design, able to reproduce frequencies from 16Hz to to 25kHz and leveraging the best wireless network technology (WiFi and Stereo Bluetooth) to distribute high-quality, high-resolution audio. Its development involved $25M, 88 patents and 10 years of R&D, according to the French company. On its introduction it was named Best of CES 2015 and, as soon as it became available it was one of the fastest-selling products in the premium audio category, selling out all 400 available units in its first day of launch.
That is why only a few people had the chance to actually listen to the surprising sound generated by this remarkable engineering feat, especially when multiple units are connected in a (wireless) network and they move air in tandem, as we’ve had the chance to listen in Munich. http://audioxpress.com/article/High-End-2015-in-Munich-Was-Another-High-Quality-Show.html
All Phantoms are manufactured entirely in France. When the Devialet Phantom became available in US, in September 2015, it sold out again and units have been so far mostly available for pre-orders placed on the company’s website. This overwhelming positive response convinced Devialet to open its first U.S. headquarters in New York City and to also open up 3 boutique stores in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, so people could experience the Phantom firsthand.
“Thanks to an incredibly successful launch, Devialet has gone from being a name known only among the highest-end audiophiles to being on the lips of mainstream music-lovers around the U.S,” said Quentin Sannié, co-founder and CEO of Devialet back in September 2015.
By using speakers that are flush with the surface of a perfect sphere, the Devialet Phantom offers a unique portable design, being able to generate the soundstage and musicality of speakers many times its size by increasing the maximum air pressure inside the enclosure, combined with an optimal sound directivity pattern. On each side there are two Devialet-exclusive high-excursion bass drivers moving in perfect symmetry.
At the heart of the Phantom is Devialet’s own technology platform, known as ADH Intelligence, combining the refinement of analog Class A amplification with the power of Class D amplification. The company’s SAM Processing technology is then used to control the speakers acoustic pressure. And the speaker is a truly integrated intelligent system, able to improve with free updates, and gain new functionalities such as enabling 5.1 Cinema configurations or support new streaming services.
Now, the state-of-the-art speakers - the Phantom ($1,990 / €1,690 - 750 Watts, 99 dB SPL at 1 meter) or the Silver Phantom ($2,390 / €1,990 - 3000 Watts, 105 dB SPL at 1 meter) - are available for even more people to experience since Apple announced it will sell and even showcase the wireless speakers in so-called Phantom Implosive Sound Centers across Apple Stores in 2016. To kickoff the Holiday Season, the Devialet speakers will be immediately available in 13 Apple Stores across the United States, including New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
“Working with Apple has been a long-held dream of Devialet since the company’s inception,” explains Quentin Sannié. “Like Apple, our products share the same level of category re-invention, premium quality and the acclaim of consumers worldwide.”
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