Hooked up my Focals

[galacticmonkey 5,000+ posts]

I got bored so I decided to just hook them up to see how they sounded. Nothing fancy, just hooked up one 6.5/tweeter to the DLS amp. Its actually a 3 channel amp and has the 2 front channels and a sub channel. I set them on the seat to hear the type of sound they made. They sound very clear. Surprisingly loud too. Didnt have any punch, but thats not expected with a speaker and tweeter sitting on a seat freeair.

Ended up listening to a couple tracks with the speaker alone, then I actually found an Eminence Alpha 8 underneath my passanger seat. Woot. The other 6.5/tweet was still in the box in my house, so I just connected the Alpha 8 on the other channel. Was ghetto as hell, but the big 8 actually sounded great with the clean signal and nice tweeter from the Focal. Everyone says that pro audio speakers are garbage, but they can sound great. The Focal set didnt have the low vocals or low bass guitar sound that I like since they were freeair and not even in a baffle, but the Alpha 8 really filled that in. They blended pretty well actually. I think that when I put these Focals in my next car, Im actually going to put a nice 8 in each kick. You could definately hear the difference in sound on the Alpha 8 from when I had them bridged way down on a Crunch 4 channel with the gains cranked, compared to a higher ohm load with everything set in a way that wasnt trying to squeeze every watt out of the amp. Sounds like a completely different speaker. Now I remember why Eminence builds the speakers that are in some of the nicest guitar and bass cabinets that you can buy.

Wasnt a real test or review or anything, but so far Im really happy with the sound of the Focals.

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[Theride 10+ year member]

which model u got?

 

[galacticmonkey 5,000+ posts]

Polyglass 165VR. Forgot to even mention it.

I fail.

 

[Theride 10+ year member]

Nice. I might pick up a set or just a set of tweet to go with the rainbow mids i have right now.

 

[galacticmonkey 5,000+ posts]

People say Focal tweets are harsh... But I guess they dont phase me since I was running around 1,000+rms on a bunch of Selenium horn tweeters. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[Theride 10+ year member]

do you get a lot of SIBILIS (not sure about the spelling) when you play music and the artist is pronouncing the S?

 

[galacticmonkey 5,000+ posts]

Like when it all blends together on things like cymbals and everything? Nope, not at all.

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

I really liked the TN52 tweets that came with the K2P set. Loved the mid too, should have never sold them. My dad has the polyglass set...they sound good when I EQ them, but he always ruins it by booting the EQ like crazy.

 

[FJF 10+ year member]

do you get a lot of SIBILIS (not sure about the spelling) when you play music and the artist is pronouncing the S?

Sibilance. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Beerdrnkr 5,000+ posts]

Who says pro audio speakers ****? I've been running a ton of pro audio speakers over the last couple years and the price to performance ratio is much better than a lot of comp sets out there. I didn't like my Focal Polyglass set at all, my rainbow germaniums were hands down a much better set. The other comp set that I really thought sucked was the highest line of JL comps, I forget the model number. The guy was trying to show off his hummer install and it was terrible. I've been playing around with 4 2" fullrange drivers in the a-pillars and they're sounding pretty good, although I wish I had a nice eq for them. I also wanted to try out pointsource (coaxials) in my kickpanels and see how they sound.

 

[galacticmonkey 5,000+ posts]

Who says pro audio speakers ****? I've been running a ton of pro audio speakers over the last couple years and the price to performance ratio is much better than a lot of comp sets out there. I didn't like my Focal Polyglass set at all, my rainbow germaniums were hands down a much better set. The other comp set that I really thought sucked was the highest line of JL comps, I forget the model number. The guy was trying to show off his hummer install and it was terrible. I've been playing around with 4 2" fullrange drivers in the a-pillars and they're sounding pretty good, although I wish I had a nice eq for them. I also wanted to try out pointsource (coaxials) in my kickpanels and see how they sound.

What didnt you like about the Focals?

 

[Beerdrnkr 5,000+ posts]

What didnt you like about the Focals?

Mainly the tweeter but the midbass was a little lacking as well. I didn't go active with them so it might have been able to do better there. The midrange was decent. I liked the Germs all around much better though.

 

[okiedokie 10+ year member]

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