I have a Swarm and used to have a Fathom (but not a pair).
My main speakers are Magneplanar 1.6qr's which roll off between 30-40Hz in my room. The Fathom gave me all the deep bass I wanted, but I always had a major problem with discontinuity between the planar drivers and the dynamic drivers of the Fathom.
I read about people using the Swarm successfully with Maggies so I talked to Duke LeJune at Audiokinesis and bought a Swarm. His advice on setup was to "scatter" the Swarm speakers around the room. Better still, get them on different levels (e.g. some higher in the room than others).
I found the actual Swarm locations to be fairly non-critical. I did have a strong bass node at one listening position that totally went away with some small repositioning of some of the drivers. More importantly, I've gotten much more coherent music as a result of the change.
I've been running them for about 5 years now and have no plans to change. Very worthwhile, at least for me in my system.
YMMV
My main speakers are Magneplanar 1.6qr's which roll off between 30-40Hz in my room. The Fathom gave me all the deep bass I wanted, but I always had a major problem with discontinuity between the planar drivers and the dynamic drivers of the Fathom.
I read about people using the Swarm successfully with Maggies so I talked to Duke LeJune at Audiokinesis and bought a Swarm. His advice on setup was to "scatter" the Swarm speakers around the room. Better still, get them on different levels (e.g. some higher in the room than others).
I found the actual Swarm locations to be fairly non-critical. I did have a strong bass node at one listening position that totally went away with some small repositioning of some of the drivers. More importantly, I've gotten much more coherent music as a result of the change.
I've been running them for about 5 years now and have no plans to change. Very worthwhile, at least for me in my system.
YMMV