Devialet
With its powerfully perfect sound, listeners to the Phantom’s cordless, Bluetooth-enabled speaker get quite an earful. Created by Devialet (sometimes called “France’s Apple”), with Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH, as a lead investor, Phantom was a sensation in Europe, but unknown in the U.S. before we climbed into the sound booth. By trumpeting the speaker’s luxuriously French connections, and fans such as Sting, Kanye and Karl Lagerfeld, LaForce helped make Phantom a must-listen for American audiophiles.