In a recent work (arXiv:2310.06025) we explore avenues for the detectability of QCD phase transitions to deconfined quarks in mergers of neutron stars. In particular we show that employing the sensitivities of next-generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors, at postmerger signal to noise ratios (SNRs) as low as 10, we can detect phase transitions but only if they strongly violate the so-called quasi-universal relations by more than 1.6 σ. We also show that at the same SNR, we can reliably recover the postmerger signal and differentiate between GW models on the basis of shifts in their postmerger peak frequencies.