Devialet Phantom wireless speaker: Promises power & preciseness

The Devialet Phantom's been around a while, but the Apple Store recently started selling the basic-but-still-very-expensive version of the speaker. Everything about the speaker is impressive. It's wireless, incredibly powerful, yet compact and it plays bass so low you can only feel it, while looking like Swiss artist HR Giger's creation. While you can drop two grand on a single speaker, each Phantom is designed to connect with other Phantoms to create a network speaker system that you control with an app. It's basically an upmarket Sonos that looks like it came from outer space.

The regular 750-watt Phantom can blast music at 99 dB. There's a premium 3,000-watt Silver Phantom that can do 105 dB. Permanent hearing loss occurs after listening to audio at 100 dB for 15 minutes, so in addition to being incredibly expensive, both are incredibly loud.

It has one port for power. But you can buy its 'intelligent hub' for another $330. But is it worth it? That really depends on how rich you are and how much you want to impress your friends.

More features

- Can connect two to 10 Phantoms via WiFi

- Reproduces music from 16Hz to 25kHz

- Hybrid analog and digital amplification