which is best how to judge?
yr ears are different than mine connected to a different brain, listen to different musical notes.
speakers normally are focused to reproduce sound. Top end eqt varies from studios, professional listening rooms and a branch is car audio.
It donest work putting in front of you 30 top most high end expensive eqt components in yr room and start audio reproduction test because after 3 months of careful listening, when yr going to come up with yr result you will find out its not same as what others think so you go back and re-testing yr eqt. yea?
So, to make it simple professional music listeners are hired to judge out diffirent components after correcting basic errors from computing systems eqt in top end companies and detect any variations to redo the eqt before putting the refrence eqt into commercial production.
highest price range stuff has limited production because the companies reserve the rights to improve their production line and to keep control on costs
These companies have refrence models and cheaper models and you cannot compare different models of same company
but,
you can compare different models from different companies in same price range,, - now this makes things more simple to understand. yea?
next step what is available to you and how much effort yr willing to make to purchase something which is not there. this again varies from buyer to buyer...-
The distributor agents in yr country are investing 100,000/-'s to do business and to make profit so they'd go for stuff which has higher cashflow instead of money stuck for long durations. -
thats how you end up with what is avaliable in yr local market and have resale and repair facility to some extent.- (you have to buy me coffee for typing all that..lol)
I hope now its simpler now to understand your better off with stuff depending on country of residence if both brands are avaliable with same price range take yr fav cd and do a listening test yrself and tell us what YOU think.
and when is my coffee treat?
abt my experience - i am happy with lot of speakers - havent heard focals as yet i think or maybe i have when i was in Switzerland but seroiusly don't remember any discripensies ,, just stay away from fake copy of focal - ive seen pics they almost look exact same as original focals in pics