emptymt
1000+ Head-Fier
I tried to enjoy speakers, bought a pair of kef ls50’s but never used them, sold the 4 weeks later. I tried to like them, played some music and gaming etc but my enviroment just doesnt suit them for office use etc.
I prefer the more personal experience of headphones of I’m being honest, speakers are great for the living room etc for which I have sonos and currently enjoy that enough not to warrant delving any further into speakers. It is a personal preference though.
I’m seriously tossing up getting utopias or the new clears which look like they will be half the cost and have a strong chance de walling the utopias, i love the extra cables, the quality and their not big heavy cables either, i also prefer the travel case. I think focal just lost a lot of sale for utopia releasing the clears. I will reserve final judgement till I can hear them or see more reviews though. Just seems you get more for your money the clears apart from the berillium (or how wver you spell it) driver thats in the utopias.
I currently own hd800S and Aeons.
I think the main selling point of the clear is the tonality, many have voiced their opinions of the Utopia being Bass-light, and a bit bright, the clear just reflect the opinions and feedbacks of these but they do it on the Elear first (for whatever reason, etc).
I personally don't find the Utopia bass-light.
The clear also use a higher quality voiced-coil which is different than the one in Elear, Idk what they use in the Utopia on the voice coil, but they could put this in the Utopia and other improvements too when they decide to have a new flagship, etc.