Sorry if I bother your eyes or hurt your feelings, take it condescending (whenever possible) ^_^
This is my cry of the soul!
Not about sound - it's close to perfect.
Not about comfort - it's like they made them "for my head".
About appearance and selected leather type and especially color i'm going to ask you, sound search colleagues and Focal representatives, if there are any.
During last month I've been searching and comparing full-size headphones (closed back especially).
Focal Stellia one of the 3-5 in equal sound quality row obviously in front of most of others due to overall balance and is preferred to purchase, but without taking into account the price.
Perhaps the only thing that stops a lot of people from buying is the color, tenderness of the skin and its very fast contamination.
I happened to observe several instances used for some short time and they were all in a terrible unpleasant form already after several weeks of use.
Headphones for $3,000 coming to a dirty look, a sight not for the faint of heart...
The lower part of the headband and the adjacent part of the ear cushions all greasy, headphones leather all in the "human skin fat"...
And what I see on the images, where they are some trying to sell as "lightly used", all the photos are taken so that you can not see all these fat deposits.
Blurred headbands, darkened ear cushions. Showing only the outer side of cans, which, of course in a safe condition.
- What are you doing or going to do to SAVE their appearance?
- How to CLEAN them from visible human fat, paying attention to the insane tenderness of the light leather?
- Maybe someone already REPAINTED them into a more dark-brown or black with successful result?
P.S.: What about Focal Designers thought when they were made decision of such a delicate color.
If only the color only for matching with Gold-Plated Brass Astell&Kern Ultima SP1000 or Sony WM1Z...
Anyway, IMHO, it is the mistake, they must be in
BLACK like Utopia, especially for
PORTABLE use ...
Focal, are you going to sell them in "Black Edition"?
I'm (one of the) first in queue! ^_^