Focal Kanta No.2

I Expect the 1028be could out perform just about anything out there with a select number of favorite tunes and I nearly fell under their spell until I played some old average recordings and the salesman couldn't turn the system off fast enough! At $10k there's a lot of new and used speakers to choose and the listening room is going to decide what speakers sound like more than anything else. I passed on the Kanta 2 and persona 3f without even consideration because their internal volume appeared to small to play cleanly in my 18'x26'x7' listening room! Axpona had speakers of all sizes crammed into small hotel rooms and to my ears the best sound came from the smallest speakers, but those were small rooms. At $10k new there's also the contour 60 and F228be, not to mention the new Magico! If I can't get a home demo I buy used to limit the bleeding if my dream speaker becomes a nightmare in my room. I don't care for the pastel finish on the Kanta speakers and the OP sounds like a 'my way or the highway' personality. 

I wouldn't think twice about putting them in a room that big. I wish I had that for my 936's. 

Lots of fun shopping around...enjoy the journey Steve!

I bought three of them for my front L/R/C paired with a Mcintosh mc452.  Great low end.  Had them with a marantz 7 ch, 150 wpc, left alot to be desired.  Gave them good power and the results were what I expected.

There's a Kanta 3 now for larger rooms. 

Bet it sounds great.