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@m-db Thank you for the link, I've mixed hundreds of orchestras and I always bump up the cello and bass, when I did that to me it always made everything else sound better just like a sub makes vocals better in a stereo system. In an orchestra the beautiful instruments are not the 1st violins but the low instruments. When mixing group vocals the big mistake is to over feature that star lead singer and not do most of the mixing of the lower range vocalists. 

Hit the bid on the passive speakers that didn't get the bass right....

Now you got funds for the ACTIVE Focals and the room treatments (wife approved variety of course).
Keep the Genelecs. ✔

@donavabdear , not sure I posted this: 
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1801421115

I know the best new concert and studio speakers are internally powered there are great technical reasons to design a speaker and an amp synergistically, this concept is much more important to sound quality than the vibration systems we often buy.

@donavabdear 

What part of your OP don't you understand? You spent $$$ on passive chasing IDK what and you are chasing your tail in this thread about problems.

@m-db nailed it, time to move on.

I proposed TWO active systems in this thread, the Meridian and the Focal (with your beryllium tweeters).

You should have just followed your own advice 😫

@thespeakerdude 3 years ago I almost bought the Focal sopra N°3  speakers I went to Upscale Audio in So. Cal. and listened with some tube amps, Katherine McPhee's Jazz CD had just came out recorded and mixed by Al Schmitt so I knew exactly how her voice should've sounded (I worked with her for 4 years on Scorpion TV show) so I used those tracks as my reference. The speakers sounded very harsh and edgy way to much cutting high end, at that point I went to another stereo store in LA "Shellys" and listened to the Paradigm speakers that also used beryllium for their drivers, The Paradigm speakers were much warmer without the harsh cutting high end. As you said the harsh high end may be from distortion but then why does Focal have such a great reputation? The Genelec "The Ones" speakers I have are a revelation they are getting better and better the more I fuss with them, I've had a few cars in which the longer I had them the better they got this is also a wonderful attribute to have when it comes to speakers. The Genelecs for now are clearly way ahead of the Focals.