Focal car audio any good??

Originally Posted by 2fast4thelaw

They are really good but the highs are a little too laid back for my tastes. Morel speakers are not efficient and require a lot of power.

I would compare Focal to like Dynaudio, Rainbow, Seas, Morel. Focal is pretty much a top dog speaker manufacturer, just look at thier home audio lines! Some of thier speakers cost upwards of over 100 Grand. You are not going to find anything out there that is going to best them by much if any at all. They are hand made and thier approach to materials is "Cost-IS-No-Object". They are the Ferrari of the audio world.

Originally Posted by 2fast4thelaw

True but not all of these speakers need 200 to 300 watts rms to get thier full potential. My 3-way Focal polyglass 165V3's crank on 75watts rms vs a set of old Morel Ovations I had that needed 3 times as much power and still were not near as loud.

Originally Posted by Z1Performance

You really cannot compare the rms outputs amp to amp. It's like comparing one dyno to another

100 watts RMS on a McIntosh amp, and 100 watts RMS on a potentially lesser brand can be vastly different things

how the speakers are crossed over (active/passive, as well as the points), among many other things, have everything to do with overall headroom

overall though, it's like anything else..the speaker needs to be teamed to the right amp to get the most out of it

Originally Posted by 2fast4thelaw

Well lets band together and let him know that there is a demand here. I will contact him tommarrow and see if he will make them.

I would also like to see some other alternative sub enclosures available for our 370's.