Focal Elegia Circumaural Closed-Back High-Fidelity Audiophile Headphones Expired

These are great, I've had them for almost a year. You can't buy replacement pads for them anymore, but I would highly recommend the Dekoni Limited Edition Stellia Pads. They are pricey at $100, but they sound really good. Tonality and frequency response is much more normal, bass is better, isolation is better, but they do lose some of the soundstage from the original pads. Celestee pads apparently are also good replacements, but I don't think you can buy them separately from the headphones yet.

I have watched many of his reviews(and many reviews of many others), more in the background while I am doing other stuff, and IMHO he is enjoyable to listen to (entertaining and fun), and he sometimes points out feature based idiosyncrasies that most other reviews may not catch (both awesomeness and lame). IMHO, reviews of A/V gear in general when it comes to judging quality is all opinion anyway, measurements are just a piece, so watch/read the reviewer you enjoy, given until you have the "whatever" on your ears, with your gear, playing your music, you will only be able to get a general idea of how much you will like a thing. This is probably why there are thousands of brands and designs, different people want/need/like/can afford different things.

There was another reviewer I watched even more of that retired (Tyll from InnerFidelity), and his reviews were great, very scientific and thorough, very well done, and I learned that in some cases things he hated because they weren't "accurate" or whatever I enjoyed as being really fun... scientific reviews aren't everything... or even worth very much when it comes to how people enjoy art, again just IMHO. Best to just try whatever yourself if you can, or buy from a place that allows auditions/returns.

I bought the Elears on the very first time Adorama had a sale on Focal's $549 in 2017.. where at the time Focal discounts were rare, deep discounts even moreso. I still regret not picking up the Utopias for $2300(not like I had the $, but still... organ black markets exist, 4 years later you can't get them that cheap used). I have really enjoyed the Elears and think they were worth that $, even though they are I guess the crappiest of this Focal line(and mine do have the popping issues with certain low frequencies , still on my list to do the warranty thing to get them fixed), so I am really excited to get these. Trying out Stellia and Utopia, and I would also probably jump on a slick deal for Clears or Elexes, or any of the others I guess .

Thanks for the post OP, repped!

I wonder what's up with Zeos reviews and why people kept referencing to him? that dude clearly has no clue (or has his own ideas) about audiophile. His comment is completely random, and is baseless with no measurement. Plus his preferred music genre has nothing in common with most audiophiles but I'm not judging. LOL guys, if you want to watch real reviews, ignore him.