🔷 Focal Elegia

Yea color me impressed with Rogue Amoeba, can’t wait to try out SoundSource. Parametric presets are a game changer for a lot of HP like Elegia that have great technical capability and are otherwise highly desirable, but suffer from a widely unlikeable stock FR. I’m pretty sure statistically Elegia has to have one of the least well liked stock FRs, but then applying oratory1990s profile would probably catapult this HP to most peoples’ default fav closed back in the price bracket.

What Elegia does that most other closed backs of similar pricing don’t have is the cup treatment - some sort of strategically placed padding behind the driver, that gives it this really nice decay and extra soundstage. Once EQ’d to a decent FR, suddenly this HP becomes best in price bracket for closed back, no competition that I am aware of. Add in its portability, drivability, looks for office work, comfort, and idk how you’d recommend a different set for the same use case beyond just major stock FR preference.

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