Usher 718 BE's vs Focal 1007 BE's

Tef8568... I'm in complete agreement with everything you so eliquently say about the Usher BE 718’s.

Being a little crazy, I sold my Usher’s and purchased a pair of Focal BE Micro Utopia’s. Its taken me about 3 months of fiddling around with them, but the rewards are great. In the interim, with the exception of my subwoofer cable, all my IC’s, SC’s, and PC’s are now “a loom” from the same manufacturer… Kubala-Sosna. I also up-graded my sub to a JL Audio f112, and went with a Synergistic subwoofer cable.

The Usher’s left me with the impression that “this is about as good as it’s going to get”… but the Focal’s gave me the sense that there was more to be had if I addressed system weak links. I could be wrong here, but that might be a attribute of $6,000 speakers compared against $3,500 speakers (MSRP).

Jaybo, Pkancel & Richlane... You guys were all right on with your posts. My audition today of the Focal BE 1007's confirms what Jaybo says about the Focal's being more transparent, and Pkancel is right about the Focal's being more accurate. The Usher's do have that "weight" that makes them very interesting. I did hear more detail with the Focal's, but that may be attributed to the mega money Esoteric CD player my dealer used for the audition... and the room itself. Pkancel... I'd go for the Diablo Utopias in a heart beat if I could afford them. Now I'm wondering if a used pair of the Focal BE Mini Utopias might be the ticket. I'm going to bring the Focal 1007's home to audition sometime over the next two weeks. I'll keep you posted on my findings.