Fantastic demo and technical discussion, thank you! Really, your recording setup is the best I've heard on KZfaq and, unlike most, is genuinely useful for getting a good idea of a speaker's capabilities.

Very good review. Please do more. I particularly liked the paradigm personas. Very engaging and fresh sound

Weer bedankt heren voor deze leuke test ! En ook Anette Askvik was een openbaring voor mij, hele mooie muziek !!!

This is exactly what we need ! Great job.

Your tests are excellent please do as many of them as you can please, Thanks for your hard work👍❤️

Very nice comparisons, fantastic job , best regards 🏆😝

This is so valuable to be able to hear each speaker like this. I would have never expected the Sopra to sound like it did. Wow. There are so many speakers I wish I could a/b test like this. One comparo is the Tekton Ulfberht, Wilson Audio Sasha/WP8, ATC SCM100, PMC MB2SE. There is just no way I can get any of these in the same room for a test. I would love to hear these through a Meridian 818 v.3 or similiar / Mark Levinson or CH Precision. It is hard to pick based on reviews and only being able to demo one set at a time. I am a music producer and need a reference system to critically examine tracks that is nice to listen to as well.

I just bought a Focal and it's amazing 😊

This is really very cool demo and discussion. I would really appreciate if you could include Dali Epicon in these demos

Great video - really interesting

Those Focals are something else....

Great demos, serious set up. I like the Focals. Very fast , super tight bass. Will get the Focals cuz they are now much cheaper now.

Love you guys, please do more demos together you two work well together.

Give Me Your Number: 23:42 46:17 1:27:48 Walking On Air: 19:34 56:14 1:30:22 Tennis court: 17:50 59:24 1:37:21 Perfect Life: 37:09 ? 1:39:14

Nice to hear some Steven Wilson. You guys have taste!

Great Comparo

My favorite format of all the various reviewers here. Would love to see HEDD Type 7 compared with some of the more commercial ones like Dynaudio Xeo 20, or LS50, or Dali Rubicon etc.

Very very very good video

When you played Steven Wilson as a reference song I became a subscriber!

Kudos is the winner for me!

Do you get CODA products there? Curious how CODA amplifiers would match with the Focal Sopra 1s.

The Paradigm is a far more detailed and musical presentation than the Focal, to my ears. Loved both, but Paradigm REALLY impresses.

Hi guys..thanks for the vid. Really like the graphs and technical findings. Most peeps talk without the data. Any chance you could get some TAD ME1s to review? Also is there more info on speaker placement and asymmetrical positioning you were referring to?

The Focal looks best and sounds best.

All great speakers but I would go with Sopra.

1 Paradigm 2 Focal 3 Kudos

Excellent video! Curious, you mentioned 180mm is sitting position. It seems you sat further than 6 ft away. Oh, I like Lorde too! : )

Bro today took i my place Kudos super 10A after listening in dealer room Sopra No1, man those Kudos are so much musical and better, i will give a try even for Kudos 505! Man those Kudos are great, my room is very heavy for equipment nothing soundend so efortless and good as Kudos super 10a, amp was used Fortino 6550 maybe too polite or sometimes not for them, thanks for videos, i’m sure not focal guy anymore even was thinking that from tourube focals sounded better, no way for me :) also for those who read sopea no1 was running naim Nova! Not for me... btw my Martin Logan ESL are great but room too small, and not so much soul touching speaker, but.. they are also wonderfull, i will be happy to answer to wuestions, as this channel made me tey Kudos! Oh man , my testing kudos super 10a, why so not much info about them!!!???? For size even not size they are amazing, harbeth c7es3 are smoking in the corner! It is my preference of sound we are all different :)

What Hi Fi magazine was indeed correct : The Focal lacks punch and attack or in other words dynamic thrust. It does everything well , yet almost speeds through the performance without very much change at all in pace rhythm and timing. Linearity in most every way. Yet, there is a energy, sparkle and tightness across the spectrum which elevates it over the others. The Focal will keep your attention fixed on the music. just wonder if it's predictable style would become tiresome quickly enough ?

Love Paradimg Persona

興味深い動画有り難うございます。 FOCALとParadigmは会社の成り立ちやスピーカーの 構成もよく似ていて信頼できそうです。 どちらのスピーカーも所有したいです。

Focal all the way

Are the Focal stands on IsoAcoustics GAIA isolation feet? I have the same speakers and stands and want to add GAIA but not sure they would work?

Good stuff! I would love to see what you guys think of something like the Harbeth SHL5+ 40th Anniversary or similar to your reference set up and how it measures in your room. Any plans of including Harbeth’s in future reviews?

Can the Cambridge Audio 851w drive the Sopra no.1 sufficiently? If not what are some other good pairings?

The focals was brighter and The Paradigms was a lot warmer similiar to my Car Audio Frogs Sound!

Hello sir. Have you heard the Raidho XT-1 speakers? If yes, then how do they compare to the kudos Titan 505? Thanks

Hi TheAlphaAudio What do you think of Focal Sopra No1 and can I pair sets with a tube amp. Tube amplifier is Manley Stingray. Thanks so much

It’s funny because here in Canada the Focal Sopra 1 goes sells at dealers for $15,599.99 where the Paradigm Persona B sells for $8499.99. Now that’s a huge price difference. I understand the Focals are marked up in North America because they come from France however the Focals are nowhere near $7000 better than the Paradigms. Not even close

Hello! Tell me, which of the three acoustics is better suited to the Accuphase e-470 amplifier for rhythmic styles, and with more detail?

Kudos is best - almost vinyl like sound!

Please share the artist and song title of the disco song you used. It has “walking on air, don’t bring me down.

Who sings the "Walking On Air" disco song?

For a 15qm room playing all genres, would you recommend sopra or persona?

Focal Sopra 1 - even better in combo with the Sopra (active) SW 1000 😃

Supreme sound out of those focal speakers

Hi, great video. will the Sopra-1 perform well on a near field listening? (1-1.2m from center)

Would have been nice to have the same track selection on each speaker

Audiovector R1 arrete should be there. It's one of the best standmount speakers under 10000 euro

I guess you would have a lot of fun with the TAD ME1. Only slightly more expensive and best of all worlds ;) should also be a good fit for the system you have. You should definitely try these if you can.

How you can compare speakers with different music every time?

You said the distortion is "below 0.1%" yet, if I read the graph correctly, you measured THD between -30dB (40Hz) and -60dB (3KHz) with most of it being an eyeballed average -55dB between 200Hz and 10KHz. -30dB = 3% -40dB = 1% -50dB = 0.3% -55dB = 0.18% -60dB = 0.1% Any Input on that one? Also, I assume you measured @ 90dB SPL?

Today Focal made marketers.. Paradigm Persona much better, one of the technology speakers in the world! Amazing speakers Paradigm Persona! 👍

The Focal just spanks the hell out of the other two speakers. The paradigms should sound the best but they screwed up the crossover someplace to make some kind of original voicing that just doesn't work for 50% of the recordings out there. The Kudos must need a 600+ watt per channel Mac amp to sound the best as it sounds slow and muddied. To me the Focals sound like a coherent sound field regardless of distortion levels. The point of speakers is to have them disappear when you close your eyes and you forget that they even exist!

People like their food seasoned differently, I don't want to hear music as the artist intended, rather their music presented in the fashion that I prefer the most. I have ruler flat Kef 201/2 but my Diapason Adamantes hold pride of place.

When Focal Diablo Utopia bookshelf test? wink wink!! ;) ;)

1. Focal 2. Kudos 3.persona

I would choose the Kudos by far, since it is smoother than the Paradigm and has a fuller midrange than the Focal. The Kudos just has a more natural and organic sound than the other two speakers. My rating would be Kudos number 1, Focal number 2, and Paradigm dead last.

Need to modify or add upon your musical choices. Need some real instruments in there not only electronic ones. Piano, strings, winds,...something that vibrates and has presence.

The Kudos were lifeless and boring on Gimme your number. Liked that song through the Paradigms which surprised me as I did t think they'd have more separation and depth than the focals but they really had a presentation that stood out. You make it really tough making us skip around to try and hear A B C differences. Maybe edit the songs in the center of you "show" and cut the entire thing down to under 30 minutes? Would be a much more presentable presentation imo.

,,Don,t fry it at home,,... Hahaha That,s what she cooked ... XD

Lol. You know a country is advanced when they switch from their second language to their own native language in the middle of a video to accommodate the rest of the singular speaking population in the world. Amazing 🤷🏾‍♂️ Back to the point. Focal Sopras are my favourite but I'll educate myself with the rest of the other brands. And I'm Canadian. Sorry paradigm 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

You are incorrect about Kudos Titan 505 having 2nd passive woofer in isobaric configuration. The 2nd woofer inside is active.

10k would buy you a pair of Tad ME-1, which is an end game type of standmount loudspeaker.

Ok, so all I have to comment is....play some METAL! So much more dynamic than the music you've used. The music you've used is too safe.