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The speakers are huge for that room. Incredible clear sound!
What a fantastic system. Thanks Peter for this. Kevin Hayes really delivers on the goods
Great live sound. Even with headphone the sound stage is clear.
That demo actually sounded better than the spotify version even though it's gone through amp, speakers, microphone (same song and artist) how is that?
For a demo of a high end system, they should play something with more instruments. And something with highs, mids and lows,too. Jazz is a good source of such variety.
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I disagree, I love the presentation.
It doesn't matter. You can't tell what a system sounds like by listening to a video on TH-cam.
Or play a really good psytrance track. Like Mandragora Shiva Style for Example
A lot of audio videos are just a voice. lol Some just a quiet guitar and a voice. And whisky blues is popular, just a voice and piano or guitar.
WOW! Great combination of electronics and loudspeakers.
Sounds amazing,even through my pc to my JBL one's. Good to see other amps other than MacIntosh for a change.
Sounds very good on a cell phone... must really do the job in person.
Mr. PB. I can feel your excitement,awesome job.
it sounds awesome through my laptop speakers, just incredible the depth it´s so great that really it seems there are no speakers
no matter how good the sound is from high end systems demonstrated, it only sounds as good as the listener's equipment at home can reproduce it.
I can hear the clarity and detail even on this video. I’m extremely impressed. I can just imagine if I was there. Wow 10 thumbs up.
Honestly I’ve heard all levels and costs of systems and after a certain point, all that expense and flash is for show. Speaker Produced sound has limits no matter the cost and the more it costs the worse the return.
@briansnc2008 Right on Bruh!!
What is under the black drape? 🤔
Indeed, the law of diminishing returns.
Vac amps are popular with other high end venders at the audio shows and they sound very good.
Note a British made SME tonearm helping to feed the critical source to the amps and speakers! Quite a sound; Kevin is right, even listening thru cans the speakers do seem to 'disappear'.
Going to stick with my sixty-one year old Quad ESL! Interesting that this least speaker-like loudspeaker can sound just like a conventional coned driver loudspeaker when it has to replay music through such a system! All coned loudspeakers sound like coned loudspeaker once you have an ESL!
Best wishes
Yeah ok, I'm sure you were considering Grand Utopias but just decided to "stick with" your Quads. This coned loudspeaker would blow those old Quads completely out of the water in any metric you could possibly think of. Also ESL's SUCK with rock music.
Nice hi-end setup audio components in a controlled environment Sound good depending on what kind of system you listen with, but to me to crisp and too bright, maybe I" am getting old but still prefer the smooth warm sound that '70 "s and the late '80"s components deliver.
Do not get me wrong here, it is still very hi-end worth several $$$$$ more compared to the older stuff.
I am not judging which is better? the answer is obvious but this is my personal opinion and should not be compared with professional expert opinions.
Play 'High Hopes' by Pink Floyd.... Excellent recording.. Should sound 'live' on that.. Need to achieve 100Db thou to sound live..
That sounds good. I am often disappointed with Focal speakers. Not this time.
They say that the 2 inch dome tweeter in the middle of dead center with this set... is were the magic comes. And alot of consumers have said the same thing about the unique sound that comes out of this tiny little dome tweeter at dead center. I personally have heard a lot of different tweeters in my lifetime, but they say that these ones in this set is something special. Google say that these comes in second place as the best Sp's in the world, but the Alexandria XLF Sp's comes in first place according to Google! For me the (Martin Logan Neo Lithe) would be first choice for me!!
Love Focal speakers always a nice warm sound, have not heard these. Have Legacy Aries all I could afford.
Most people can only dream about having a high end system like that
This sound output is very clear and still it can be made or set to ultimate.
Really balanced sound, nothing forced. Sounds great! Go Go VAC + FOCAL!
I like to test Motown on any setup, nothing has more grit, attitude, and sheer delivery.
A very impressive super high-end system. It's frustrating that the presentation had limited bandwidth, thin sound etc. How can you not have the sound of other demos that sound full. Ex: the 2018 Munich High-end show.
My system consists of the Elac Unifi FS5 with matching SVS subwoofer.
Florie Mangona your system sounds nice. I’m using 2 SVS SB16’s with 2 MartinLogan XL60’s. For power and processing I’m using Anthem.
I have some pretty good quality but smallish floor standers and a medium sized sub and have had noise control call twice. I can only imagine the trouble I'd get into if I had these..
Good treble!
My God is poetry for the ears !
During this whole video I just kept imagining what faberge wonderworks lay beneath the black cover.
Isn't this the result of a specialised studio/audio recording that makes it sound good. I'm sure that LP will make lower priced system/speakers sound equally good also.
+ramro keto Although it is a good recording, there is nothing specialized about it. The VAC system is what is bringing out the best in the recording.
Yes, good recording will make lower priced system sound good, but it will take a lot of search, tuning and calibration to make lower priced sound system to make sound equality good.
No, not even close. I can take the same recording and play it on any system and it's usually very apparent which systems are built to a higher price point and performance standard. Sometimes you find equipment that's so good it breaks out of its price tier. But no recording can make a BAD system sound GOOD.
Amazing setup system
Sounds amazing listening though Grado headphones. But man I'm not really into those speakers physically. Not bad but not great looking.
this is a living organism👏👏👏👏
Shook hands twice in 45 seconds.. Must be very good friends.
I GOT THE MBL BIEGESCHALLWANDLER radial
LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEM.
YOU NEED A 150qm LIVINGROOM for those speakers.
Regards from Germany.
The TRANSROTOR IS VERY NICE.🙂👍👌❤
My Julian Vereker’s era reference Naim with Kef reference speakers walks over this thing....
Stunning system
Fantastic setup
Don't know if it's the limitations of TH-cam plus tablet etc, but I was waiting for the bass to rattle the floor boards and.... nothing. Yes it's clear, but bright. Did they turn down the bass? Not knocking the stuff, but with the size of it all I was expecting more OOOMPH!
It’s not bright, but typical Focal W cone dryness. Sure the latest W cones handle dynamics like never before. But the very first W cone design in 1st gen Utopia, imo the best version of all. As lush as paper cone and clean like a hard cone. Oh as for bass, only JL do it right.
remember there is no bass or treble controls on hi end equpment
@Marten Dekker Focal is one of the most famous brand in Studios up there with ATC, Genelec ect... I don't understand the Hi-Fi place. These guys buy hundred of thousand of dollars in gear to put in shitty rooms, where a mastering monitoring system is maybe 50K max with really big ATC speakers. Why ? isn't Hi-fi standing for high-fidelity ? Why not use what we use ?
Probably the mic recording this video is inescapable of picking it up.
To answer Andrew’s question directly - you hit the nail on the head, if you’re listening to this on a tablet, it’s hardware just isn’t capable of producing any bass with its small speaker(a).
This is presuming the recording was well done and captured the bass in the first place.
Excellent
Sounds good and looks good.
please some high end vinyl Techno through this...
Isso sim é qualidade 😍
Stunning.
Just amazing!
When you have the setup but
the room makes a disservice favor
Its lovely to be able to see this outstanding Audio equipment but I always have a little laugh to myself that some people actually believe they can hear the difference in sound quality from their crappy computer speakers.
Speakers are not bad, but their measurements (particularly in the time domain) are very, very average; especially for this price range.
Time domain performance is that of a speaker in the $2K- 3K range; as there is a lot of time smearing, and it appears that the tweeter and mid range drivers are connected with inverse polarity to the remaining transducer set.
Crossover design is less than spectacular.
Furthermore, the cumulative decay plot reveals (a relatively long settle time for the LF system, and that) high frequencies suffer from modal/other break up patterns and/or uncontrolled "ringing" between 10KHz and 15KHz.
The on axis frequency response, whilst ragged and featuring noticeable dips at 1.5KHz and 5KHz, manages (just) to stay within plus/minus 5 dB
Overall the large Focal speakers - measurements wise - are close to unacceptable for their price range.
For around 1/10th of their cost ($10K) I can buy other large passive floor standing and/or active speakers that nail their frequency/time and cumulative spectral decay plots, whilst also delivering similar - if not better - time domain performance and/or step responses.
These speakers probably have a great "presence" and sound good, but they are nowhere near the top 5 speakers out there today.
What would be your top 5 sir?
I heard a set of Grand Utopias a number of years ago and I was surprised to hear that such expensive, and presumably well engineered, set of speakers had a distinctly nasal characteristic to them. Something was wrong and I don't know what. The bottom octave of bass was also NOT up to par with what my Aerial 10Ts do. The Grand Utopias are more expensive but I think that the more affordable (if you can call 7700 bucks a pair affordable) 10Ts are much better speakers to my ears.
does this apply to all focals or just grande?
And I was enjoying my Dynaudio XEO system and these buggers show me this.....which bank to rob 😂
Medios y agudos buenos pero el woofer, casi no se oye.
Lo grabaron con una cámara de video, no se puede esperar mucho sabiendo eso :/ hubiese sido genial que usaran un micrófono adicional que pueda registrar mejor el sonido.
Fantastic!
a hair to loud, for youtube listening.....VACis an incredible company...
YT as a limiter at -13 LUFS you can call it RMS so all the music which is above this limit is limited, you can´t ear if is too loud or not unless you can A/B the real thing with the video. i guess the guy who record know that and he is recording to fit the YT standard, it´s easy just don´t clip A/D converter and your surelly done if it is too low just push the level a bit with a limiter until you get the YT standard or just normalize for this kind of speakers and set up it should be OK
This turntable is very very beauitiful.
a simple P.A. system with a BBE Sonic Maximizer would suffice :)
Those with conventional horns will blast your ears when played at loud volumes.
Twitters will be the best way to go. Audience loves sound generated from twitters rather than conventional horn.
Bose is my way to go system, L1, F1, S1.
Wondering how this system sounds in comparison to the studio monitors used when mixing the source?
Beautiful
Good morning. I'm from Brazil and I live in my country. I'm in love with this equipment. I want to ask a question how much would I pay for all of this that I'm seeing in the video. I was very interested. congratulations on the taste and abs quality.
About $750,000 usd. Speakers I believe r $325-350,000.00 alone. Each one of those amps is probably $35-50,000, but we r talking best in th world equipment! Some would say it's crazy, but if I could afford it, I'd have it this second! Last I checked, we only live once!🍸🍻
I understand chasing the dream of the worlds best. But isn't the real genius in design producing a great system for thousands vs 100,000?
I can only imagine what this system costs,the price of a decent car for most people?
Probably more like 2 or maybe 3 decent cars.
GetajobUAhole Those speakers alone are way over 100k. They are Focals flagship.
George Blisson was about to say we wish these were only 100K. Even then could never have of course but atleast that isn’t something too insane. I believe speakers alone retail for 180-200K
it's interesting to me if that big system disappears in a small room imagine the expansion you would get in the sound in a bigger room
UUUUUUUUU ITS VACATION DAY
Them speakers.If only I had the money.
Обалдеть ! На этой системе даже громкость регулируется...
I love valve,I want get VAC
I'm not an audio expert, but if a use a normal amplifier like a Denon and those focal speakers, Wouldnt it sound the same?
No, most likely not. 4 ohm load requires big current.
these speakers u can use them as a guard instead of dogs... 👌👌😂
very good!!
Amazing
Como no habra otra musica para probar esas cajas si los compradores no somos todos viejos y cagados
Nice Focal!
really beatiful
A live like sound
How can i possibly hear the system on my laptop via youtube compressed sound
Exactly - it is so stupid :-)
Listen through some decent headphones. 🎧 You can get a general feel of the sound, obviously not the whole thing.
I guess any wall street guys have no problem buying the set.
I wonder if a day will come where we have a 30k speaker that rivals this 200-300k speakers.
Awesome
Bass?
Thanks.
Hope u send me this complete system soon!!!
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Nice I like it
Still sounds good?
Ótima qualidade
Good but...too bad the bottom end doesn't come out on YT.
Not sure it depend the frecuency range of the speakers you have for listen at, not over my laptop speakers of courses. also it never gonna be like to be in the room hahaha
Why the speakers stand with this little distance to each other...in this giant room...?
To prevent sidereflection from the wall and window, that will make the deep frequencies blow of.
great song !!!
If this go on sale for 90% i still can't afford it.
i hate to see ppl not appreciating music , i mean i wouldn't play distorted sine waves mp3 on this system , let alone great artistic work from madona or gaga on vinyl
***** man you completely misunderstood the statement , it was sarcasm, since the system is obviously work of art for rich ppl not music system ...read it again as sarcasm . As for music carriers analog vs digital and all that , im sure there is plenty of arguments for both , i just like nice sound no matter the source
Awesome sound…considering the fact that this recording is nothing to shout about. Oh this was the LP version. The cd version sounded absolutely meh.
Great Sound!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What about some good old school speaker?? Klipsh. Voice of the theater?? Don,t need mega watt power amps!!! 20 ti 30 watts will blow you out of the room!!
Russell E Simonetta agree! Many of these mega dollar speakers are low sensitivity (not sure about the Grand Utopias), thus requiring absurd amounts of power to make them sing. What even better is that Klipsch no longer than the bullhorn effect like their older versions, so you get the details, clarity, and dynamics with relatively low power, though you always want it to be a good quality amp.
Esa música se escucha bien , con un sistema radson
Raining blood type of guys there
wow
star trek here we are - all for naught
go on how much
Wow
Any chance of playing abit of reggae pls
Track??? Please
I want just to know is Yamaha or what is...??? I have a sistem look like is that.
Как в таком маленьком помещение могут играть такие монстры?)
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