Focal Maestro Utopia , need advice for AMP/PRE

the speakers are 6 month old already broke in

I've been keeping track of progress on my Focal Grande EM since the day they arrived. Weekdays they play from 7:15 AM until 6:30 and several hours with movies on the weekend it's taken seven months to accumulate 1487 hours.

Focal suggest break in is 1500 hours or more. My speakers have continued to improve, mostly at first but important changes to deep bass and driver integration occurred as recently as a few weeks ago.

Unless you keep a written record day by day, it's easy to think you are done.

11-27-13: Pelo911
Seos1: you like the Maestro more the Magico Q5 ?!

Those are absolutely diferent speakers, I heard both extensively, and Seos1 in not the one- Maestro is better speaker. The only real thing what I liked about Q5 was bass quality(better than Maestro), but in midrange and hights ( same records in same room) Maestro is clear winner. With exception on organ works, where tilted up hights was more impressive. For any other music Maestro is better speaker.

Goood luck to thread strater- its not an easy task- I have never heard any other speakers which are so dependable on amplifer. From cheap amplification I liked Mola Mola amplifiers.

Ren_audio
Thanks for your response
i'm happy to hear you think the Maestro better then Q5.

it's very hard to match system for the Maestro
specially for me since i'm new to High-End.

i'm trying to find out what other Maestro owner using
so far those are the Amp i found that the owners using:

Aesthetix Atlas Mono
VTL 450 III
Accuphase A-200 and M6000
Karan acoustic , i'm not sure what was the model KAS600 or KAM900
Krell 402E or 600e
AVM Audio MA8
Goldmund
Audionet Max ,
BURMESTER 911
Gryphon
McIntosh MC601

i guess the weakpoint at my system:
Oppo 105
maybe one of the Cables?
i should buy a Reference DAC and CD player , do you have recommendation to test?
maybe also to get Apple computer instead PC?

Pelo, I can't say that Focal Maestro is a better speaker than the
Magico Q5. They are very different and it also depend on what
kind of music you listen to.
Magico are more transparent and for classic, some kind of jazz are
fantastic. Maestro are more dinamyc and give weight to the music.
For rock,blues ,reggae are better.
The bass in the Magico is more accurate but In the Maestro has more
punch. Focal Maestro are also more forgiving in amplifier (therefore you
can also save some money). I find my Maestro with MC Intosh very good.
Greetings Sergio