Advantages of beryllium?

A - The 936 is not very clean
B - It has the Focal 100 Hz dip in impedance, which makes the speakers seem more "discerning" of various amplifiers. In some cases this is done artificially in the crossover.

Best,

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shadorne, I dunno if what they say is accurate but it does seem to be a  pretty good summary - I'm not a dome kinda guy (Maggies) - tho if someone offered me a free pair of Sonus Faber Aida's I could be persuaded to switch.

@erik_squires 

Does the 936 have a Beryllium driver? Or is that reserved for higher up Focals?

Per the web site, it is Al/Mg.

Nothing against Al/Mg but Focal has this fetish for micro motors which are never as smooth or dynamic as the large motor variants.

Though lately ScanSpeak has produced some tweets which are close to the same motor size and very very good sounding.

@erik_squires 

What do you mean by micro motors? I don't understand that term, sorry.