I own Focal Cleer, not for a long time, but got a taste of them... I was raised with XBA-Z5 as my beloved headphones, and for a moment considered to try Radiance as a , potentially, more full sounding cans with a bit of sound isolation. I tried them in a local shop playing from naim Atom.. and after just few songs felt surprise at best. Fisrt, the bass is there, and its really low, but then , to my ears, somewhere around 100hz its... loosing its potency to a point of being really anaemic. I really loved highs, To my ears there were really pleasant. BUT, its hard for me to judge mid tones as I instantly felt the scene of headphones, their.. phisical scene. I really felt unnatural reverb, like a can sound, like a lack of dumping in the can itself. With medium vilume it created almost wall of sound to my ears, one with no slam justa bit of sweet subbase wisper. Then we moved to Focal Arche, and still I was able to hear cans adding to the reverbs, adding their own internal echo. This was the only pair.. I tried Stellia ( Infinite looove for those Masters ), but to my ears there was something odd with Radiance unit I tried. Did anyone have same issues?
Also , Clear lacks sub base - a lot actually - but Base is far more solid, physical and full to my ears.