geetarman49
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Hi WB,
I'm French and using amazon.co.uk is the cheaper way for European customer to get the X20 and have customs paid by the distributor and not the final customer. Even if you have to pay bank fee for £/€ change final price is ~750€ or 579 £ if you live in UK !
If you get the Elise, you also have to wait at least a week to 10 day before you get a burned device. EL3N also need long time before singing.
I hope you will share also your impression on DAC and X20+Elise pairing. (if you can also listen TotalDAC with heaphone this could be great
I should have said also that I like neutral and natural sound, and do not listen too much electronic music or even modern studio album (i cannot stand reverb, vocoder, dumkit, loops....).
The comparison with both DAC and Elise bringed me to system synergy as we have to deal with "speaker" sets. Elise pairs well with many headphone but for me the magic is with the T1 and X20 pushed details transparency and natural presentation to another level. INHO, you start to enjoy the music when you stop to listen your headphone, your DAC, your tube and this is exactly at this point that synergy is important.
Hi one thing I forgot to ask you, did you replace the circuit breaker with a high end one, preferably gold instead of rhodium. Should cost 30Euros and is the first thing to do for the X20. Seems the circuit breaker is a bottle neck.
Cheers
WB
i have heard this before about rhodium-coated contacts sounding bad ... and i am just as guilty as anyone else concerning parroting this 'info' ... but did you actually get a chance to try this as a blind-test comparo? before anyone gets in a snit about sound-sciences, this is just an actual query and nothing else is implied.
LR, when you write text above the quote box --- & if someone else wants to quote you, then nothing shows up ... as per this example.
you wrote: "Yessir, it's a Utopia system. I did not get in touch with them, I am pretty sure they would have done the same with me, make me feel guilty haha
I have plans to get rid of Focal from my life, there is a lot of it but I will slowly transition, this is inevitable after this 2nd time."
if you think treat their customers with a wave of their hand, look at how they treated their usa distributor; let's call them bill & bob -- again, this goes back more than 2 decades. for many years, these 2 guys travelled the usa, demo-ing the spkrs & building up a hard-earned cadre of dealers. then came the big c.e.s. & they said you guys set it up and we'll be there too. after the first nite of the show, they had an end of day pow-wow where they informed bill & bob that they were out and thank you but we'll build a new co. now to distribute in the usa. no buyout, no compensation ... sayonara. so you want to be in hi-end audio biz? ... assume the position!
Or HAT Hybrid Audio Technology!!!!!! 
