I was at The Source AV yesterday and spent a few hours comparing quite a few different headphones, from the HD 660S up to the Utopia.
Of all the headphones I auditioned, the Clear was my 2nd overall favorite (Utopia was my 1st). As good as the TOTL Audeze, HiFiMAN and MrSpeakers planar headphones were, there was just something that sounded very 'right' about the Focal Clear and Utopia's overall SQ, IMHO.
The tuning of the Clear was a surprisingly significant improvement over the Elear, and was pretty close to the Utopia. So if the Elex has the same tuning as the Clear and sounds 80-90% as good, for half the price, I just can't see how you can go wrong the them.
Also, the build quality of the Focal's was on another level, when compared to their similarly priced competition.