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Vertical dispersion is important to me and non-coaxial speakers sound broken off axis for my use cases in a living room.
I just look at the Devialet as having wide dispersion with roll off. If they had a sub for $2500 and two reactors can be had for $2500, then we're at 1/3 the price of new Genelec monitors+subwoofer.
If my OLED TV color shifted as much as most speakers do when I stand up to get water, grab food, a remote, etc. I'd return it and buy something where the engineers paid attention to such an obvious issue that could be fixed without an audible drawback.
The Kii Three and Dutch & Dutch 8C are two such speakers. Can't accept a crippling issue (lobeing) that is so abundantly apparent in the measurements, yet the engineers simply can't be bothered.
90% of the time I'm sure they'd be incredible, and a notable upgrade... But when I'm playing Mario Kart sitting on the floor with cousins, or doing yoga, or lying on the couch, or standing up to get more food, I think I'd wish I had the Phantoms and not something that intermittently sounds physically broken. At the price and not having that issue for me counts for a lot for the Phantoms, but I'm sure many aren't bothered by irregular vertical dispersion as much.
Yeah but the 8260 is coax too, and measures better(smoother and controls directivity much lower). I still don’t see how Phantoms + subs would be preferable to 8260s + subs(talking strictly sound quality), which was the only part of your post I’m replying too. Maybe you weren’t talking strictly sound quality?
PS: I love the coax thing too. Whenever I start listening to music for too long, my dog inevitably drags me down to the floor to play. It’s nice that the sound isn’t ruined when sitting on the floor .