Why so little none impressions on Focal Maestro?

Focalfan, thanks for info, I will try to arrange accuphase m6000 for audition throught local dealer, but VTL is a real problem as there is no VTL dealer. BTW even if Focal is high sensitivity I felt they like power very much.

lets wait for new Utopia IV system, I know that focal working on elecgromagnetic midrange drivers (but not in focal-home section) - that would be awesome to have Grande EM featuring subwoofer, midwoofer and midrange drivers with EM technology.

Maestro Utopia are so sensitive to room acoustics, power, grounding noises and sources and take some major burn in and tweaking to really reach their full potential. Check out my virtual system page. http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vaslt&1300472276&read&keyw&zztripoint

thats very interesting system! probbaly first on Audiogon with Maestro. I will be some kind of translator here- could you please share your expierence with setup and maching equipment for this speaker? owner wants to know anything that may help to get max out of them, but does not speak english. thanks in advance.

himiguel, nice system!
yes, the focals need many hours of breakin ,500?most speakers are sensitive to room accoustics,placements and so on.please tell us about the pretty wood boxes you have on the floor.

Hi Focalfan,

what does the rest of your set-up consist of.

I read your speakers are G.U. EM's and you have 4 VTL Sigfrieds driving them.

What size of room do you have.

There is another poster who has the G.U. EM's also.

When I was looking for a speaker to replace my Avalon Isis a few years back I looked into Focal and listened to their BE series and with all the hype floating around I was exspecting allot more but in the end was disappointed specicially when we take into the cost factor at approx. $90K + depending on which would finish you got at that time.

Two local freinds bought their speakers but this did not last very long before replacing them, Nova BE and Grand U BE. My one friend spent over a $100K for his had problems even unloading his G.U., took almost a year and only got $28K and they were in MINT condition, that was really sad.

Are the new E.M.'s over all sound that much different? can you describe anything that really stands out because reading your prior postings it appears you also owned the G.U. BE's prior to getting your E.M.'s which cost close to a whopping $200K here and possibly even more depending on the finish one chooses.