I hate to throw water on the party but if all you have to spend is $1,500 you are better of not doing a subwoofer. For that money you will never do your Focals justice. The overall effect will be worse than no subwoofer at all. A subwoofer system to match those speakers would be at least $4000.00. I would hold off till you have more to spend.Nonsense. By what metric does $ = ♥?
A decent sub, properly implemented, increases realism beyond all proportion to the frequency response.