Hi Bryon,
before I got the 1027 BE I did have the Trent II from Castle, a wonderful sounding little loudspeaker combined with an Infinity subwoofer. Not that perfect as the Focal but not so far of it. For the price, absolute high value. If I compare the 1027 BE with the Trent II and with other loudspeaker, the midrange is to thin. Also my ear is missing some pressure in the mid (voices and some instruments). Clearly it may also be a matter of taste, but I don't beleave, that it is only that. Maybe they changed something in the series. Which midrange chassis is built in your BE (my is as stated 6 W 4361)? The serial number of my BE is 10A 000 115, but there is nowhere a date of production.
One point but very unlikely could be, that the mid chassis has a lost of efficiency. Electrically I could not find a problem. I did wobble the voltage at the mid with a tone generator and checked the wave with an oscilloscope. Below 2kHz it gets a maximum of 80% amplitude of the crossover input. The impedance of the mid is 7 Ohm, I expected 8 Ohm, but I have to verify that with a better multimeter.
louk