Thanks for making excuses for their tiny and cheap crossover. For $8K a pair, the inductor should be much larger - clearly, they are trying to save on materials. I'd be curious to see what happens when Danny Richie finally gets a hold of a pair of these. However, even if he comes up with a kit (which will probably result in an improvement), those who can afford this speaker in the first place will have to decide if they want to build custom circuit boards from a $400 kit, spending 60 hours+ on the project. That's why speakers like these will eventually be replaced by active speakers, or pro audio monitors. But that means people won't spend all their personal time looking for that "ideal amp" or having to do crossover upgrades in the first place. For many, it seems, it is about the journey, and not getting great sound from the get-go.

@@abboberg yet I’ve compared them to countless other products… and I prefer their sound signature. I don’t give a fuck if they used tinfoil to achieve their sound. This hobby has become more of how something looks than it sounds apparently. I’ve been in hifi shops and pointed out audio flaws the Apple TV was making with Dolby Atmos movie streams NONE of them could hear the very faint pops and clicks… ironically when you turned off HDR the pops and clicks were gone. It was a bottle neck issue and I called apple recorded it and the engineers told me specifically “ we are now aware and hear what your talking about but this, this might not get resolved for a very long time.” They were right it wasn’t fixed until the new generation. Anyways Yet the same people in that hifi shop were trying to tell me how great certain cables sound… give me a break. Everyone trying to look for “what measures well” they all measure well now… it’s personal taste… focal has a certain crack and smack to them other brands don’t, and I don’t really care “how accurate they are” cause they sound super vivid and lively I don’t need a Danny crossover to “correct that” and dampen it to make it more “accurate”

5.000 euros for an industrial production garbage ???

@@Paranimal86 I’ve seen the DIY community quite vocal about replacing crossovers of Focal speakers. Those cheesy parts really hold back the performance of Kanta and Aria line.

This isn't about being simple but about using quality components. You can have simple and good quality crossover or complicated and bad

No idea, Focal is using it's own cables

I don't know about using "cheaper" components or in fact if that is good practice considering the overall cost of these speakers, but generally, better drivers typically require less complicated crossovers (less correction etc) Think I remember Epos and some other well known brands using just a simple capacitor on the tweeter for a very efficient simple 1st order, great if the drivers are up to it as less components to muddy the sound.

@@mgsamps I would say thats false. Better drivers usually lose linearity to get a higher sensitivity, faster response and lower distortion or maybe higher xmax etc depending what someone want. Many of higher end speaker drivers are harder to integrate than average ones.

Unfortunately the drivers got the higher distortion and I doubt it matters that much on that price range. Although there are good relatively cheap drivers they still cost a bit more and companies need to save some money.

Just use your hands, grab the ring from the side of the cone and pull carefully

hxos plus so it’s just a friction fit?

@@kylebowker5389 I don't remember exactly, friction or magnetic

@@kylebowker5389 double sided tape is used

@@WimHulpia so is the recommended practice to apply heated air (hair drier or heat gun on low temperature) to warm up the trim ring to loosen the adhesive bond so that it can be removed to expose the speaker fastening screws underneath? I have a loose binding post and I’d like to remove the lower mid-range driver to gain access the nut inside the cabinet so I can tighten it.

No sorry they don't worth $6k using cheap parts👎👎😤 I seen and heard speakers costing way less than $6k with better parts.

Lol spendor d7.2 cost the same and it blow them out of the water. Its even more insane when floorstander beat bookshelf at the same price point.

@@20puskinas1992 I did a comparative listening at a dealers, to my ears the Kantas sounded better

@@stereophonic9220 So you listen to the parts ? Not to the sound of the speakers ?

@@Tartifless Unless it was a blind test the results doesn't matter

Finally head the kanta 2 wish I hadn't, they sound heavenly. I love the mids and now I can't unhear it. 10k and my mortality time clock is yelling do it, do it!

Eazy Ryder - why do you think the flax cone is cheaply made?

@@riledrive2504 It doesn't have the magnet cover but to be fair it's not intended to look. The speaker driver looks average although doesn't have some top tier flower magnet or big voicoil or other technologies.

It's easy just pull out ..

@@hxosplus and how to reapply??

@@turkandproud69 the same way

Sorry can u explain it to me like im a baby. Is that a good or a bad thing? This is a genuine question.

@@fdude555 have u try to build a speaker using decent parts put together ? Have u seen the other crossover from another mid -high end speaker manufacturer ?? No matter how they said those drive are well engineering and unique, I still think a 6k speaker with this parts are really ridiculous....

Obviously i havent hence my inquiry. Your original tone was not clear what the entire message is that why i had to ask to be sure.

@@fdude555 I said it petty clear, ENTRY LEVEL CAP ..... ELECTROLYTIC CAP??!!!! 18 AWG INDUCTOR .................LOL

No it wasnt clear. My takeaway here from you is that it is a negative aspect of this speaker. The wire is wrong size and electrolytic capacitors dont belong to expensive speakers. It took us a few exchanges for me to come up with that.

"$250 for the parts ..." really ? a single good woofer costs already 200 I am talking about sale price non manufacturing price That i really do not know

3k marketing and 1k distribution. Noodles on ears by seller depends on bonus.

@@gino3286 It was a bit of sarcasm, but the markup on high end electronics is crazy.

@@dr.emilschaffhausen4683 i see. I guess that some people rate the look a lot more than the actual sound. A good way to test a system's sound is in the darkness ... becasue the look can be deceiving. Wives are very sensitive to the look much more than the sound and it can be an issue. Maybe some speakers are even hand made in very small quantities ? and probably there are cheaper and better sounding ones.

People who make these comments can’t afford or have never heard them

People are hating cuz it's an $8000 speaker using cheap components. I feel like anyone would be mad if they're expensive anything was using cheap stuff.

Exactly, these woofers and tweeters cabinets are designed in house, designed to be super efficient for accuracy. They literally use laser to measure the driver thicknesses, and speeds... Focal makes some of the best technology in the audio industry. They’ve designed drivers for other products including Wilson audio. The tweeters also are designed to not resonate so sophisticated crossovers that burn off energy at the sacrifice of detail are not needed. People should watch stuff on their factory, they are an impressive company, not many companies design and build every component in their products.

A speaker it's like a system, you can't tell from a cable how it performs.

McIntosh is in the car industry

Я вообще не понял , за что такие деньги ? Судя по начинке - бюджет , ни кроссовер ни высокочастотник не впечатлили , ну не за диффузор из льна такая сумма ?

You dont know what you are talking about

@@henriksrensen5958 no??

@@henriksrensen5958 I can build you a replica of thst crossover for 20usd each

Do you undersatnd the concept of a business? If you don't have the money to buy, then don't buy.

No. it made in France