I had a few drinks and bought some speakers

@desktopguy you 100% nailed this. Buying speakers drunk or sober, the result is the same and the build up is the same. 

@nitewulf Brimstone is a fun whiskey ride. I have a bottle that I pull out when I want to feel like I'm sitting next to a fire while camping. Rye 100 is phenomenal and Baby Blue are on my rotation this week. A nice Glencairin glass to sip and listen to music is my life. Hopefully these Sopra's make that experience better!

What a fun thread! Had a friend in college who had a few too many and woke up with a gal in a motel that wasn’t anywhere as beautiful as the night before. His remark: “the sun crept in, and I crept out”. I bought a pair of 2 way Focal 1007Be monitors about 11 years ago. I sold them about a year ago to an audiophile friend and regretted that decision. He graciously sold them back to me. They are tipped toward the treble. Bright but not brilliant. Had paired with a musical Audio Research 100.2 amp and Ref 3 preamp, which was great. You need a little yin for the yang. And avoid a lively room. I think used Sopra 2s are a great purchase myself, alcohol based or not. Congratulations! Enjoy the music

I own Focal Utopia loudspeakers.  If you're really looking to get much more of  the best out of them, doing a parts upgrade in the xover is HIGHLY recommended. They may have an electrolytic as mine did that's well worth replacing but very high end polypropylene such a the top wimas definitely help too. You might need to put them in an exterior box to match the value of the capacitors already in there. After that Townshend
Seismic Isolation Podiums will make a big difference.

Great thread. OP, I hope you get endless hours of enjoyment from your new Focals. Great music and fine whiskey, for me, and especially when combined, are two supreme joys in this life. Gardening, breathing sweet, fresh air, and driving a rambunctious open-air two-seater is also in there, along with sharing a home with my bride of decades and tossing a ball to our intrepid German Shepherd, sometimes for hours on end.

I surely don’t know about any "other life." I figure this is it. And it’s not a dress rehearsal. But, if somehow I do indeed manage to come back, I hope it’s as an audiophile with Italian speakers and vintage tube electronics, and not a frog or worse.

I had a few drinks and now I have two children.......you got off easy.