Introducing: Focal Kanta 2

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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,505
    edited April 2018
    F1nut wrote: »
    Joey_V wrote: »
    I broke down... grills on

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    I don’t trust the one in the dinosaur sweater....

    You're going to find those balls stuffed in the ports......lol

    Ummm

    That’s actually a legitimate concern now that you mention it Jesse
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,505
    DSkip wrote: »
    Get some foam to stick in there. Pull it when you listen.

    Genius
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 24,476
    DSkip wrote: »
    Get some foam to stick in there. Pull it when you listen.

    Made by Nerf
  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,505
    edited April 2018
    I have inspected the port, there are no balls yet.

    So far, needs quite a bit of tweaking, a little bassy but I can tell you it is definitely warmer than the BW CM10s2 that it replaced. Not as warm as my Sonus Fabers.

    My wife just got home from her girls' night... "blue??"

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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,708
    edited April 2018
    Joey, see if you can buy two more of the smaller grill covers to put over the ports. Attach them with this stuff.

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  • monepolk
    monepolk Posts: 1,140
    Congrats on the new speakers, looking forward to your impressions.
  • mlistens03
    mlistens03 Posts: 2,767
    In my old Velodyne sub (it was a vx-10b) it would rattle REALLY loud at low frequencies, and with the music I listened to at the time, it would rattle all the time. So I final,y convinced my dad to let me open it up and fix it, and when I did, there were 3 cat toys with a bell in them and a hot wheels car. The cat toys were not my fault. The hot wheels car... you never know :wink:
    Nice speakers dude, how do they sound? I’ve never heard a pair of Focals before so you’ll have to do a in depth review. :grin:
  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    Very nice. Congrats.
  • WLDock
    WLDock Posts: 3,073
    edited April 2018
    Wow, the new $10K Flax cone and Beryllium tweet marriage Kanta in powder blue for the kids game room. Joey, you are raising future audiophile giants. Your kids are going to want $20k systems in their dorm rooms/apt and custom installed $5k Focal Utopia Be component sets, $2000 Mosconi amps, etc in their CLA AMG coupes! Start them on the path while they are young....
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,521
    Why do they always go straight for the tweeter? LOL Someday I'll share my audio system saving process known as "Grandpa Steve's Towel rule."
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,902
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Why do they always go straight for the tweeter? LOL Someday I'll share my audio system saving process known as "Grandpa Steve's Towel rule."

    Ha, I have some rules as well. No throwing things, and a 2 ft distance from any electronics/speakers. No walking around with drinks, sit at a table or coffee table and drink. Might as well have caution tape around any stereo gear. Mine is an invisible caution tape though, and they know it.
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,505
    WLDock wrote: »
    Wow, the new $10K Flax cone and Beryllium tweet marriage Kanta in powder blue for the kids game room. Joey, you are raising future audiophile giants. Your kids are going to want $20k systems in their dorm rooms/apt and custom installed $5k Focal Utopia Be component sets, $2000 Mosconi amps, etc in their CLA AMG coupes! Start them on the path while they are young....
    With my recent financial/part time job issues, I’m gonna be real broke ha
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,505
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Why do they always go straight for the tweeter? LOL Someday I'll share my audio system saving process known as "Grandpa Steve's Towel rule."

    I was wondering the same thing, I was like wait where are those fingers going??

    It’s not like he hasn’t seen a speaker before but all the other speakers the tweeter is out of reach.
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  • mlistens03
    mlistens03 Posts: 2,767
    Guys, I’m going to admit to a terrible evil... I was that kid. I walked right up and poked the tweeter dust cap on my dads Eosone S60s (or something like that, they were something supposedly made by Polk at Best Buy). I’m sorry.
    I also recently poked the dust cap on one of the woofer when trying to clean it up, but I fixed that before he noticed :wink: he found out later, but he was cool since it was fixed :relieved:
  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,505
    mlistens03 wrote: »
    Guys, I’m going to admit to a terrible evil... I was that kid. I walked right up and poked the tweeter dust cap on my dads Eosone S60s (or something like that, they were something supposedly made by Polk at Best Buy). I’m sorry.
    I also recently poked the dust cap on one of the woofer when trying to clean it up, but I fixed that before he noticed :wink: he found out later, but he was cool since it was fixed :relieved:
    Thank goodness the beryllium tweeter has a guard...
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,505
    Clipdat wrote: »
    It looks like you already have a Rotel pre and amp in the cabinet powering them? How are they sounding?

    They sound OK

    I have to tweak and position them better, need to plug in the upgraded speaker wires. Gonna try my last OPPO real quick (before deciding on selling it for the final time). Then figure out what’s next.

    I think to get more out of them I would need either active room correction or room treatments. I don’t know if my wife will approve of room treatments. I know she has suggested that Disney Frozen come and add some decor touches because of the ice blue speakers
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  • mlistens03
    mlistens03 Posts: 2,767
    Joey_V wrote: »
    mlistens03 wrote: »
    Guys, I’m going to admit to a terrible evil... I was that kid. I walked right up and poked the tweeter dust cap on my dads Eosone S60s (or something like that, they were something supposedly made by Polk at Best Buy). I’m sorry.
    I also recently poked the dust cap on one of the woofer when trying to clean it up, but I fixed that before he noticed :wink: he found out later, but he was cool since it was fixed :relieved:
    Thank goodness the beryllium tweeter has a guard...

    Keep the covers on those woofers too, you don’t think it’ll happen til it does.
  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,505
    edited April 2018
    mlistens03 wrote: »
    Joey_V wrote: »
    mlistens03 wrote: »
    Guys, I’m going to admit to a terrible evil... I was that kid. I walked right up and poked the tweeter dust cap on my dads Eosone S60s (or something like that, they were something supposedly made by Polk at Best Buy). I’m sorry.
    I also recently poked the dust cap on one of the woofer when trying to clean it up, but I fixed that before he noticed :wink: he found out later, but he was cool since it was fixed :relieved:
    Thank goodness the beryllium tweeter has a guard...

    Keep the covers on those woofers too, you don’t think it’ll happen til it does.

    I’m just glad there are no dustcaps

    Emma was never like this, but the kid in the dinosaur sweater is sneaky
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 10,862
    edited April 2018
    Joey_V wrote: »
    mlistens03 wrote: »
    Joey_V wrote: »
    mlistens03 wrote: »
    Guys, I’m going to admit to a terrible evil... I was that kid. I walked right up and poked the tweeter dust cap on my dads Eosone S60s (or something like that, they were something supposedly made by Polk at Best Buy). I’m sorry.
    I also recently poked the dust cap on one of the woofer when trying to clean it up, but I fixed that before he noticed :wink: he found out later, but he was cool since it was fixed :relieved:
    Thank goodness the beryllium tweeter has a guard...

    Keep the covers on those woofers too, you don’t think it’ll happen til it does.

    I’m just glad there are no dustcaps

    Emma was never like this, but the kid in the dinosaur sweater is sneaky

    Who's kid is that anyway?!? Sheesh the nerve of some people's kids. ;)
  • mlistens03
    mlistens03 Posts: 2,767
    Ahh ok I see that now. I thought the had black dust caps
  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,505
    Waiting outside in the lobby of the music school, Emma’s inside playing with the cello

    Still sounds better than even my best system


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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,559
    I have mixed feelings about records being used as decoration.
  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,505
    Clipdat wrote: »
    I have mixed feelings about records being used as decoration.

    Cannibalism
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  • mpitogo
    mpitogo Posts: 475
    Looks great! Hope you get to enjoy them
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,505
    mpitogo wrote: »
    Looks great! Hope you get to enjoy them

    I think so

    Right now I’d put:

    1. Main system 90%
    2. Sonus Faber system 70%
    3. Focal system 60%
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,559
    I wonder how long they will take to break in.
  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,505
    Clipdat wrote: »
    I wonder how long they will take to break in.

    I think the room has more to do with the sound, I’ve been in the speaker game long enough. I can tell

    The Kanta 2 is a superb speaker.

    It’s just not pushed in an untreated gameroom but I knew that

    But compared to the main system, it’s not even in the same zip code.
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  • mikeyb128
    mikeyb128 Posts: 2,885
    Expect 2-300 hours for that beryllium tweeter to smooth out.
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,505
    mikeyb128 wrote: »
    Expect 2-300 hours for that beryllium tweeter to smooth out.

    Prob have 100 left

    The tweeter isn’t bright actually
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