Anyone heard the new Focal Grande Utopia EM?

I have a pair of Grand Utopia EM for 5 months.
it takes a long time to break in.

The result is great in term of soundstage, dynamics. They are also very fast. The difference between CD and SACD is now extraordinay with my DCS stack Elgar Plus / Verona / La scala. I may move to dcs scarlatti but I am so happy now that I am not in a hurry to upgrade.

You need a big room to let them breath. Set up needs a lot of time (it took me tens of tests after break in before I put the spikes which improve greatly the sound).

Sound can be big or more focused depending on your set up and taste. This is also the beauty of an adjustable speaker.

I have never heard these speakers with a proper set up (placement/adjustable level are very sensitive) in a dealer shop or at an exhibition. And usually they do not have spikes. As such, most reviews are useless...

Focal should release a new model with the EM technology later this year.

I am currently using a pair of Theta Citadel 1.5, and an ARC Ref 3. ; These speakers do not need a powerfull amp, but you need an amp that can go quite low. Focal demos them with Halcro but I did not heard the combination.
I heard them with Krell but did not find it was a good.
I heard them with Viola amps : very liquid but did not go low enough for my taste (some meat was missing).

This speaker is very fast and can go very low. So you need an amp accordingly. After 5 months of experiments, I can say that these speakers are so revealing that you need very carefull matching, including all types of cables.

I do not feel the need to change my amp, but as you know it's a never ending story... I am aware that I have room for significant improvements but limitation is definitely not the speaker in my set up. At this point, I still have an image too big for voices and violin (for instance), but experiments with new cables showed that it could be solved.