Warm romantic & detailed


Good morning Gentlemen & ladies... 

I'm just starting to toy with idea of replacing my Focal 1038's... No matter how I treat my room, or what equipment I throw at it I just can't seem to tame the harsh highs on this speaker. 

I'd like to stay in the same price range of the Electra's (7/8k), I don't mind buying used, the musts for me at this point are: Warm, romantic, yet detailed... It would be beautiful to just sit and listen and not have ear fatigue after 15 minutes of listening. 

Can you please recommend something? 
jeffinnh76
I used to have the same problem until I tried Proac, Response line. No more listening fatigue and as a bonus, they are very forgiving speakers. Unless I was listening too jazz, audiophile recordings or the odd popular album that happened to be well recorded, mostly sounded terrible. Now virtually every album sounds at least 'very good' all the way to spectacular. 
The forgiving nature of the response line does not affect the great transparency... 

Bass is very surprising for size of speakers. Powerful and tight. To me the whole response line are really fun speakers to listen too. The studio range is good, but there's a huge gap in quality and they don't have the same "warmish" sound.

The description of what you're looking for sounds a lot like what I had been looking for, for years. I haven't bought a non-ProAc speaker since. They're are plenty of good choices out there but all ProAc Response speakers sound perfect to my ears.

I also like the higher end Dali speakers but they don't correspond to what you're looking for as much as the ProAc's.

Good luck!
I second the guy who suggested digital processing ala Room EQ Wizzard.  I'm a renter who's had to deal with all sorts of terrible-sounding rooms, and room correction is an absolute lifesaver.

I currently use MathAudioRoomEQ via Foobar2000, but there are hardware-based solutions that are a better fit if you have analog sources.
+1 - MAGICO A3s with big tube amp buy it ASAP.

I run my A3's with a Mac MC275 and C2300 pre, streaming through a MCD 500 CD/DAC and Bluesound Node 2i. REL 7ti for the low end. Sublime.
Hi Jeff,
I tried out the 1038 Be2 as well a couple years ago.  I found them too bright in my space also.  In addition....I was quite disappointed in the bass for three 7 in drivers.  A few months ago a nice opportunity came along for some Wilson Audio Sophia 1s.  Although I believe the tweeter is still Focal, it is titanium and is much more smooth in my system.  It is laughable how much improved the low end and overall sound is compared to the 1038s.  My space is large at around 16x40x10 with the speakers at one end facing across the 40 foot area.  This ad below has been on here for quite a while.  Wilson had some mfg issues several years ago and are such an amazing company they have corrected all these regardless who's hands the speakers are in.  This pair has already had that corrected and are like new.  This is such a nice sounding speaker...I truly believe I have the speaker that will keep me smiling for decades to come.  Good luck!
Dana
https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisa3beb-wilson-audio-sophia-full-range
jeffinnh If you're in NH then you have an excellent opportunity to demo most of these speakers. Audio Video Therapy is a Spendor dealer. Fidelis which is 20 minutes away has Harbeth, Sonus, Dynaudio and Vandersteen. Walter the owner of Fidelis is the National USA distributor for Harbeth. Both stores by the way do offer home demos. One other speaker I'd put on the list is Sonner. AVT carries it along w/the Spendor. Also Fidelis is a McIntosh dealer too.