I am just repeating some thing I read before in a magazine about buying studio monitors for use in monitoring vs using regular speakers and how they are designed differently. I used to read some of the old music recording magazines in the UK.
The other factor also had to do with differences in crossover designs to account for near field listening.
And for the record, I had the Focal Solo 6 Be so I have nothing but respect for those types of speakers. A friend of mine who owned the Solo 6 before me also owned the Focal 1007Be and it's not funny how close the two sounded despite a big disparity in pricing.
But the 1007Be did have the edge when it came to overall extensions in both extreme frequencies and it was able to resolve more complex passages. This was in partnership with a set of Karan power amps and the whole Electra/Karan combo is probably close to 6x the price of the Solo6.
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