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Moving to Focal after 22 years with B&W
Welp, after owning/using B&W speakers since buying a pair of CDM7SE in college, I found myself over the last ccouple of years not really listenign to muic anymore. After a long and painful process, I was able to find a dealer who was willing to trade a pair of new white Sopra No 2 for my 802 D3's and HTM1 D3.
The room they are going in is also our home theater, but I use it 70% for music and rest movies,etc. I have a few questions 1. Will the Sopra 2's pair well with a McIntosh C2700 tube preamp and a McIntosh MC452 amp for 2 channel and an Anthem AM 70 for surround 2. At some point in the next few months I will add the Sopra center. How power hungry is it? Do yall like it? I will say for all the faults B&W has, the HTM1 D3 center was a damn fine speaker. 3. This brings me to the sides, I sold off most of the B&W surrounds. For now, I brought up my Aria 26's from the living room to be the sides and the Chorus 705 from my office for the rears. I assume they will do for a while. THe big question is what does Focal make that would can replace the 4 in ceiling B&W Cinema 7's I use for Atmos heights? |
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I also used to be a B&W guy but moved on to the Focal Utopia line for my main speakers.
Starting a new combined stereo/surround system in a new space and I also wanted to go to an all Focal line-up and also decided on using an Anthem AVM90 for processing. Your best match for your Sopra 2 would be to look into the 1000 series in walls. They use the same W sandwich cones and a beryllium tweeter. I will be using their IW6's for sides and rears and their IWC6 for Atmos ceiling speakers. Good luck on your new system. Edward
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Analog Sources: Oppo 203, Oppo 105, DirecTV, AppleTV 4K, Roku Ultra, Nvidia Shield Digital Sources: Aurender W20 via USB and dual XLR, dCS Rossini and Clock HT Processor: Anthem AVM90 PreAmp: Audio Research Ref 6 Amp: ML 536 (2), Rotel 1552 (3), Rotel 1585 Speakers: Focal Maestro EVO, Focal 1000 Utopia Center, Focal 1000 IW6 side/rear surrounds, Focal 1000 IW6 X4 Ceiling, Rel G2 X 2 subs, Martin Logan 1500 X 2 subs, B&W 805D2 in master bedroom Video: JVC NZ8 Projector Power: Shunyata Everest, Sigma XC (1), Sigma NR (1), Sigma Analog (2), Alpha HC (2), Alpha Digital (2), Alpha Analog (1), Viper(1), Venom Digital(1) Cables: Shunyata Anaconda SC, Anaconda IC (2), Shunyata Sigma USB, Shunyata Sigma XLR X 2, Shunyata Sigma Ethernet, Shunyata Clock Alpha X 2, Sigma x 1 |
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