Why so many used focals?

Glancing over various measurements for Bowers and Wilkins, DeVore, Wilson, Harbeth, GoldenEar, and KEF, many had various lumps and bumps in their impedance, Wilson being among the flattest and B&W often going clean off the graph past 20 ohm. Generally though, the group didn't see big lumps in their tweeter regions. My Focal 936's would fall into the group too. The big lump Focal Be tweeters exhibit is at least somewhat unique based on my randomly pulliing measurements out of a hat. 

So, while a McIntosh amp would probably play well with most of the speakers who's measurements I glanced at, justifying their philosophy on autoformers, speakers with those Be tweeters might not be a good match. Not so sure about those off the chart upper mid-range lumps some B&W make either. 

I just looked for Focal speakers on Audigon and found only ONE Maestro Utopia III.    Only ONE.

yea, they've changed how the search engine works. I type in Focal and 2 pages of speakers appear I hit the search button and they all disappear! then if I search from my phone I get a completely different list. 

Anyhow I finally got the Kanta 3's into my basement and am playing all my old rock collection. They're sensitive and don't need a ton of power, image great and have an open clean midrange and my wife likes the way they look! If I hadn't lucked into the Usher be-20 DMD's I probably would have bought the Kanta's but the speakers are more of a trade of qualities than one being a clear winner and my room is a *itch.

Steve59,

So did you keep the Kanta 3's?

ozzy

The Kanta 3's are going back! If they sounded in my room like they did in the showroom I would have kept them, but the demo showed me i'm trying to fix the wrong thing and it's my room that needs treatment. I appreciate my dealers patience working with me and I hope with some room treatments I won't need speakers after all.