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After getting the utopia i mite just decide to sell the HEK, like you said, dont know, so step 1 ill get utopia, step 2: see what happens next.
If upgrade prices drop, ill do it, if earpads sold separately, ill do it.
Utopia is not a replacement for HE1000s though, maybe SR009 or Mr Speakers ES will be. HE1000 to Utopia would be trading for electrostatic-like highs at the cost of complete removal of the soundstage and trading subsonic bass for a boosted upper bass. I think another poster in the Focal thread made the comment that they sounded better without the earpads which is definitely true in my opinion--they no longer sound closed in.
As an owner of both, I would say Utopia IS a replacement for HE1000, but that is just me. If you owned (or have properly auditioned) both and felt otherwise, your impression is valid but I just felt any potential buyer of either need to hear another opinion as well.
I don't know how you come up with that sentence "complete removal of the soundstage" but that is just harsh(coming from an owner of HD800S myself) and I cannot agree with you.
To each his own. Not starting an argument but I felt there need to put another side of owner's impression out there, that's all