1) First impression is that Vestia No. 1 has a much more rolled off treble than the previous generation of Focal tweeters (original Cobalt era) or the JBL 708P.
2) The light wood color is a yellow cream/beige. It’s definitely not as white as the marketing pictures suggest.
3) The bass response is nice. Feels like I would be satisfied in an office with this level of bass.
The woofer is supposed to be identical to the Chora 806/Chora 816. What's new is the tweeter. I tried to take nearfield measurements. There is only a single binding post, so these are just different positions of the microphone vs. the true response. There is no smoothing at all so that you can get a sense of the quality of the UMIK-1 recording.
In my recording, you don’t see the 8 kHz peak. That might be the improvement in the new M-profile tweeter although the 4-7 kHZ is probably the woofer.
In my listening position, you have the room node at just above 55 Hz or so. The treble rapidly rolls off after 10 kHz
If I look at the Chora 816, we see the Sound Power DI and Early Reflections DI rise at 9 kHz.
So, my guess is that the M-profile tweeter as opposed to the inverted dome design improves dispersion by 1 kHz (meaning it gets up to 10 kHz instead of 9 kHz before the SPDI/ERDI increases, and it reduces the peak at 8 kHz that was present in the previous models.
2) The light wood color is a yellow cream/beige. It’s definitely not as white as the marketing pictures suggest.
3) The bass response is nice. Feels like I would be satisfied in an office with this level of bass.
The woofer is supposed to be identical to the Chora 806/Chora 816. What's new is the tweeter. I tried to take nearfield measurements. There is only a single binding post, so these are just different positions of the microphone vs. the true response. There is no smoothing at all so that you can get a sense of the quality of the UMIK-1 recording.
In my recording, you don’t see the 8 kHz peak. That might be the improvement in the new M-profile tweeter although the 4-7 kHZ is probably the woofer.
In my listening position, you have the room node at just above 55 Hz or so. The treble rapidly rolls off after 10 kHz
If I look at the Chora 816, we see the Sound Power DI and Early Reflections DI rise at 9 kHz.
So, my guess is that the M-profile tweeter as opposed to the inverted dome design improves dispersion by 1 kHz (meaning it gets up to 10 kHz instead of 9 kHz before the SPDI/ERDI increases, and it reduces the peak at 8 kHz that was present in the previous models.
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