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Agree, the confort is not there for my large ears neither.

It pass without EQ for me. I personally do not find these Dull. a bit sharp yes, that treble boost can be a bit much but I kinda losing some levels up there myself and somehow can work for me. Preferences.

OK but it's not just realigned, the scale is also doubled. Still a very large bass hump. and a very significant mid dip.

I feel very different, I believe tranducers and the physic side of audio reproduction and acoustics is probably the one area where there is the most room for R&D.

Yes I do hope that they don't give up on those nice paint piano finish in tasteful colors to go all in on those veneered side panels, leathery cottage look. They both have their appeal but I know what I would want in my house.

500$ Each.

Yep, the cost of oversea freight have gone up stupid. It really hurt these great brands. As far as I remember Focal has always had a very strong presence in Canada, or at least in Québec, maybe due to the French language connection somehow and the location of their North American headquarters...

All Focal speakers to me sound a bit bright, it's their signature but I have to say I did not know you could get an entry into this brand at such a low price especially in tower / dual woofer format and still get a good over all performance option and a fair bit of that nice esthetics they are...

Proposing alternative solutions is not "Hijacking a thread" Discussion forum is made to discuss but it's ok if you don't want to. Good point about the SPDIF out, but the Orei equivalent product to the Teksmart switch you propose is also just 65$ also with an audio extractor (but in this case...

Isn't this a completely different product and different purpose? How is the HDA-939 a "selector"?

Vendor- "I have USB DACs, where is your computer located?" Customer-"oh, about 20 feet from my system on my home working office deck over there" Vendor- ah... You can't have a USB cable that long but you can use HDMI, there's already one going to your TV, right?"

I highly doubt that every customer will use the digital output. The vast majority of people don't even know what a DAC is, let alone considering the purchase of one. Me I think that for most it's more like "Hey dear vendor, I need to get the sound for my movie in my sound system, but I don't...

Interresting how perception of quality varies. I'll say I am no plastic expert, and also maybe picture don't do it justice. But to my eyes this looks very brittle and flimsy and would fear these hinges could break just by looking at them.

Well, my “modern” laptop speakers are much worst and band limited than that,It’s not true that people listen only to high quality, Actually I think it is wost than ever because people expect a commercial music production to be heard trough a few millimeters iphone speaker. Nobody would have...

I can’t speak for these avantone, but as for the original auratone which these are trying to get the market from,It’s hard to know why they became a standard, it just was, indeed they always purposely sounded like crap, but it was crap that the mixing engineer knew really well. Why would a...

It would tough, you just happened to hook up device that were designed according to standards, of the era. Windows did shut down USB for overcurrent numerous time on me, but I admit it was a product in dev. Not sure neither if it happened to me with a finished USB product.

According to Amir, the port is the total opposite of clean: " I kept hearing some artifacts. I traced this to the port. Boy, what comes out of that hole is ugly! In all but the faintest volumes, it would both chuff and spit out highly distorted version of the front wavefront". What makes you...

Maybe, but when looking at street prices, even in the US. They are quite on par. That's creative US site: List price appears to be 129$ or so for BX3 but Amir mentioned buying it for 90$ on the first page of this thread. It does appear to me to be a better purchase in this segment. Bottom line...

I am going to assume you are joking... https://blog.audiokinetic.com/en/loudness-and-frequency-response-on-popular-smart-phones/

OK, In Canada it's the other way around. The Pair of T40 is 150$ CAD, and The pair of BX3 Is 100$ CAD. I didn't google the US prices.