What electronics and cable are you using?
I'm going to comment based on my experience with different types of drivers. The Focal Aria use their new flax/fiberglass drivers for mids and woofers. These are warmer and have more body than the previous Focal drivers. However, the high frequencies can have a bright edge to the sound on these speakers due to the metal dome tweeters. Metal has a low breakup/distortion frequency that is easily heard.
I would say Tyler Acoustics is more like the powerful underdog. They are not well known. They make a variety of speakers with different driver combinations (Tyler does not have one voice). The new Highland H3.5 uses Scan-Speak drivers for both mids and tweeters. The beryllium tweeter will not have the bright edge and distortion that you hear from the Focal metal dome tweeter. However, the Scan-Speak mids and woofers are incredibly transparent and revealing. So much that it will show flaws in your electronics and cabling. Scan-Speak is not warm sounding like the Focal Aria. However, it is not thin sounding like the conventional Focal speakers. It is very easy to get a Scan-Speak speaker to sound bad with common "consumer electronics" level equipment. Don't get me wrong, Scan-Speak can sound excellent with the right equipment. However, put something like a sterile harsh Hegel or Cambridge unit and you get a harsh sound with quick listening fatigue.
So, to sum it up, the Focal Aria is more forgiving in the mids and lows than the Scan-Speak. However, the Scan-Speak does not have the bright edge high frequencies that the Focal Aria does.
