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Focal Chora 816 Speaker Review

Rate this speaker:

  • 1. Poor (headless panther)

    Votes: 5 1.7%
  • 2. Not terrible (postman panther)

    Votes: 28 9.4%
  • 3. Fine (happy panther)

    Votes: 169 56.7%
  • 4. Great (golfing panther)

    Votes: 96 32.2%

  • Total voters
    298

Red5

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Here are my charts pulled from audyssey. The top is before I moved the speaker by 5cm.

Interesting the subwoofer dip in 30-40hz is also improved.
 

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wandulus

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I got from almost 3 years the bookshelf version of this (806). Yesterday I discover an strange behavior: Just cleaning the hifi rack with some music on, the soundstage sound amazing almost between speakers, about 0.5m in front of speakers, in the middle of them.
The distance between speakers is about 3m, and listening position is about 3m from the speakers, with toe-in aimed to that position.
I tried with a lot less of toe-in after this event, and soundstage get a lot better (besides I was OK before). This is what I most love of this speakers, the 3D soundstage and the ability to "dissapear" in the room. Some friends think that there is a center channel in the back of the TV.
 
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