One last bit of advice. If you cannot home audition equipment from your local brick and mortar audio shop, or travel to listen to your narrowed field of choices, there are many companies that will let you home audition for 2-4 weeks provided you pay a nominal restocking fee if you opt to return it. Schitt is one such company, and the $900 Schitt Freya+ tube preamp has been said to offer 85-90% of the performance of high end tube preamps. FWIW.
Looking for Advice on Focal Speakers
Hey everyone, so currently I have a 9.1 Klipsch RP system. I’m looking to upgrade big time with new towers and a center channel. I was able to audition some Focal 936s last week and was really impressed. The store offered me a pretty good deal on them and also a good deal on the Kantas which I love the look of, but haven’t been able to audition them. Are they worth slightly over double the price? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
These will be used in a living room, open floor plan. I have a Marantz Receiver and a Parasound Halo for the tower speakers. I am mostly upgrading for music listening, but of course I would also appreciate the extra quality for movies/tv.
I’m drawn to focal for the aesthetics and sound quality. I also like Sonus Faber but all of their speakers have leather on them which is a non starter for me. I only mention these so you can get an idea of the style I like. I dislike the more futuristic plastic looking speakers out there. I’m open to suggestions. I did audition some Paradigms and I did not like them (too bright for me).
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@willy-t Damn that's a steal. You get them on here or local? |
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