Focal Twin6 Be Studio Monitor Review

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@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

If you are considering purchasing these, please consider doing so through my affiliate links as it helps me keep doing what I'm doing and costs you nothing. B&H Photo Video: bhpho.to/3t3d8qi Amazon: amzn.to/2PD2cS6

@imhaydenmelrose 2 года назад

A review on the recent update / revision of these monitors would be greatly appreciated! Very good reviews man! Keep it up.

@poochymama2878 3 года назад

Nice. Wasn't expecting another review today. Excited to watch!

@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

Hope you enjoyed it!

@caspermaster-com 3 года назад

Great review! First video I saw of you and I really liked that you felt pretty unbiased, could explain the positives and negatives in a really describing way

@lixly8070 3 года назад

Nice shirt bud! I appreciate you making these videos.

@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

Glad you like them!

@scott001music 3 года назад

Great Review Erin! I have these monitors in my music studio! I loved seeing this review! I ended up using Sonarworks (room correction) software in my music studio.... Definitely helps with that dip in the upper crossover point... It was great to see your measurements!!! Keep up the great work!

@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

Awesome! Thank you!

@Frankie_G_ Год назад

Thanks. Appreciate the explanations of the graphs a lot as well

@alfredwatkins 3 года назад

As a Twin6be owner since 2013, it hasn't worked in my space in the horizontal orientation due to my room dimension and available space. So mine have been in the vertical position from the start and tested (and sound) much better. Before that point, I HAD to effectively treat my room with bass traps and broadband absorbers to really get the best out of these monitors. They are very picky about the space they are in. I worked with GIK Acoustics to get the room sounding right and really dialed it in to get my room and monitors to work well together. I absolutely love them and they have been my workhorses in all of my work since I got them.

@LaidbackSounds 2 года назад

thanks for the info and the product placement haha

@TechnoDad 3 года назад

Great video man!

@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

Thank you, sir!

@IrenESorius 3 года назад

Hope you will get your hands on a couple of Genelec 8341,s one day. Totaly love this YT-channel. Thanks and cheers Erin,, 🍻😎👍‍‍.

@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

If Genelec would be willing to send me some to review I would be happy to.

@IrenESorius 3 года назад

@@ErinsAudioCorner If there would´nt be an Atlantic ocean between us, I would send you mine for a Klippel spin. All the best to you and your close ones. Take care,,

@stevenswall 3 года назад

Used these in the Barrus studio at BYU Idaho. I remember them being picky with the soundstage, but for some vocals sounding perfectly real.

@poochymama2878 3 года назад

BTW, I'm pretty sure that the dispersion widening from 5-9kHz is very intentional, and intrinsic to how Focal differentiate themselves. All the Focal measurements I've seen show that. Likely why they go with that inverted tweeter. Personally, I'm not a huge fan, but I do know people that love wide dispersion who love the Focal sound because of that. Ideally you wouldn't want that dispersion narrowing in the region right before, though, and I'm guessing that's the consequence of not going 3 way. Going 3 way though would have likely ruined that excellent distortion, performance. Cool to see those design tradeoffs reflected in the measurements.

@iowaudioreviews 3 года назад

Great review. You also get best shirt of the day award 🎉🥇🎉

@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

Thank you so much 😁

@roanmccormick7923 2 года назад

Great review!

@ErinsAudioCorner 2 года назад

Thanks!

@Rene_Christensen 3 года назад

It would be really interesting to see how the midrange without crossover behaves. It could have a big rise after the crossover frequency and there seemingly is a steep filter that cannot really handle that issue...?

@jasonk8311 3 года назад

It would be cool to hear your thoughts/testing on the open baffle Spatial Audio M3 sapphire speakers. They make some interesting claims about the low frequencies having a figure 8 spatial profile.

@sigurtsigurt549 3 года назад

i had this before i switched to dutch and dutch 8c, by the way really good review of dd8c 👌

@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

Thanks! Any thoughts as to how they compare, to your ears?

@DJURBANBG 3 года назад

compare both , please

@sigurtsigurt549 3 года назад

in short.. focal sounds how to say chemical in mids, and after some time i am not a fan of berylium tweeter, good spec on paper but quicky ear fatigue, with dd8c all sounds really natural and can work with them many hours

@DJURBANBG 3 года назад

@@sigurtsigurt549 thanks ! I guess mixing is easier and translation of songs is much better with 8c ?

@themastroiannis 3 года назад

fantastic thorough review!! You nailed it! I used to own them but last year switched to a pair of Neumann KH310 which I find more accurate for mixing and mastering (and they go a bit lower which is a bonus!) . Would love your take on those ...if there's any chance. Thanks for you dedication.

@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

Thanks! I’d like to try out the Neumann as well. I think Amir at ASR had reviewed them but I’d still like to at least hear what they sound like.

@themastroiannis 3 года назад

@@ErinsAudioCorner I hope you can get a pair! would love to hear your thoughts! All your reviews are so thorough. great stuff!

@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

@@themastroiannis thanks. I appreciate that.

@mixpertutti2301 3 года назад

Hello! I would like to ask you which monitor stand do you use? What if when I have to set the monitors if they are on the right or on the left, I have to do it according to my listening position?

@Recordingstudio-uk 2 года назад

I have the focals in a vertical position how should I have the woofer rear switch selected for left & right? Are these designed to be toed inwards?

@dustinkirk4515 22 дня назад

I'm looking at picking up a pair of these very soon - I'm struggling to find any information on whether vertical use is fine? I know some 2.5 way don't like vertical

@niksoification Год назад

How do they compare agains much cheaper monitors like the Yamaha HS8? Would I notice a big difference with this monitor upgrade in a reasonably well treated room?

@Recordingstudio-uk 2 года назад

Hi if have the focals in a vertical position how should I correctly have the woofer switch selected for left & right?

@Frankie_G_ Год назад

Thanks. Have you heard the Trio6 or 11?

@user-jn9ey6cu5f 10 месяцев назад

I have these speakers. Love them. I have a issue which is the fuse keeps blowing. I have tried slow blow fuse as well. I live in india. I bought the speakers in Bulgaria. So the power plug is 2 pin. I am using a adapter to give it proper earthing.

@pliedtka 3 года назад

Wow, the dip at x-over is 'strange'. But I maybe the freq resp of the midbass just doesn't allow for smooth transition - resonance around 1.8k and some peaking higher in frequencies indicating not the best behaviour of the cone. I have similar issues with SB17NRXC-4 that Erin tasted many years ago - the cone edge/surround interference around 1.4kHz making a proper transition to tweeter challenging. But with DSP Focal should be able to smooth things over. Also if they use LR4 type crossover there will a big dip in power response as well, as evident in off axis measurements and reflections pattern. As for the increase in dispersion, most Focal inverted domes are similar - reminds me of Daline TL from 90s, except it was crossed around 3k and tweeter level was some 3dB lower than midbass, again drop in output after cone edge/surround interference - easy going spkrs, not bad back then.

@jasonk8311 3 года назад

I gave a listen to the Kanta 2 and Paradigm 100F today which both sounded very accurate and detailed particularly with female vocals and that brings me to a question for you. Is there a way to quantify this accuracy, maybe you call it dynamics? Not sure of the exact lingo. Maybe using fast Gaussian pulses? Thanks!

@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

Accuracy would be more in the frequency response. Dynamics could be attributed to sensitivity, compression and maybe even the FR balance. To be honest, when it comes to nailing down "dynamics" to one specific measurement, I'm not sure what that would be. I tend to think it's a combination.

@jasonk8311 3 года назад

@@ErinsAudioCorner If I'm not mistaken, accuracy would be proportional to how quickly the driver and change direction. Thus if you were to input a complex varying waveform to the speaker and either make accurate measurement of the actual driver position in space or perhaps just record the reproduction of the waveform by the speaker with a microphone in the time domain you could try to capture smearing, loss of amplitude, missed components ... in the reproduced signal compared to the reference. Perhaps with enough speakers one could relate the reproduced signal to terminology like sharp, distorted, crisp...?

@pulDag Месяц назад

@@jasonk8311 that's the part of distortion.

@joentell 3 года назад

I wasn't expecting that. Response above 1.5khz has that dip followed by a big wide boost, and then another small dip, and then another small rise, then the roll-off. ???

@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

Yea, there are definitely things about this speaker that I didn't expect either. It has really great response below 1kHz (to my ears, too) but above that it was meh.

@john2335 3 года назад

That 2k dip loks a lot like one on my my focal chorus 705 of 2005 vintage. The french should have stuck to wine & cheese ;P

@junior-OG 3 года назад

🤣

@GTRGTX999 3 года назад

Hi, will you do one a test of Scanspeak Ellipticor?

@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

I'd like to but I don't have the means to purchase them just for testing.

@albertorolon137 3 года назад

Did u ever review the adams ax7?

@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

Nope.

@DrSamE 3 года назад

Hey! Any change you could do measurements and review of ATC SCM50ASL speakers?

@ErinsAudioCorner 3 года назад

I would be happy to but don’t have the means to acquire them for test purposes unless someone wants to send in a pair.

@DrSamE 3 года назад

@@ErinsAudioCorner Becouse these are considered ”best mixing speakers” by many people. The ATC generally, and starting from the 50asl line and up... SO, if you somehow can acquire them, that would do A LOT of justice for the pro audio world!

@ryanstanley2985 2 года назад

Focal is very good speaker, especially in percussion type instruments, you sould listen to focal 1038be, maybe your wife and child like utopia series better.