Focal Electra Question

[lordemsworth]

Hello all,

Wondering if there are any here that moved from a B&W Diamond speaker to a Focal Electra?

I just moved from 805 Diamonds to 1008 Be 2s.

I'm about to complete an update to the amp, (Krell 400 XI to Moon i5.3), but with my current amp (Krell), and I have found that the Focal do not have the soundstage extend beyond the outer edge of the speakers as much as the B&Ws.

The biggest positive differences I've found:
1) The sound from the Focal is much more full - I can definitely hear more of the instruments in a recording
2) The tweeter just doesn't seem to break up. It remains clean and coherent on all recordings. I run a Squeezebox Touch through a Meridian DAC, and I need to set the gain of the input to 97 (verified with Meridian) to use the Volume of the amp correctly. With two pairs of Sonus Faber and the B&W, I found the tweeter would tend to break up on very high notes, or old recordings. The Focal do not have this particular feature (for which I am grateful).

Thoughts would be appreciated.