HD800 - where to go next?

[seeteeyou]

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/focal-utopia-general-discussion.811273/page-826#post-15818801

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Have had my utopia for about 2 months , bought brand new . This week the left driver died . I’ve contacted my dealer and it’s being sent back to focal .
sucks that driver failure is still going on with utopia even with their latest batches. .

 

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/focal-utopia-general-discussion.811273/page-826#post-15821216

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I appreciate that you posted this. I was re-considering purchasing the Utopia but it seems they still have failures several years after their release.

 

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/focal-utopia-general-discussion.811273/page-833#post-15836400

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My left driver of the Utopia died on Saturday. This was the replacement pair I got after the first pair with a failed driver ☹.
This is not good, I do not think there will be trouble with Focal, but this is getting tiring and my trust is rapidly dwindling.

 

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/focal-utopia-general-discussion.811273/page-835#post-15837736

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I babies mine too since early adopter 2016 and drivers failed 3X so far. Last time was in late Dec 2019.

 

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/focal-utopia-general-discussion.811273/page-835#post-15837873

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I just talked to my Focal trader. He said the last batch he got was troublesome (but no more details), so it might be ... good batches, bad batches. Good for the lucky ones, not great for the unlucky ones especially when the replacement comes from the same batch.

 

[seeteeyou]

I wish it's that simple but other sites were reporting the same stuff

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=focal+driver+failure+site%3Adrop.com

 

I didn't bother to mention these guys since most of us here couldn't understand Chinese without machine translations

 

https://post76.hk/thread-310236-1-1.html

https://lihkg.com/thread/836172/page/11?post=268

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https://lihkg.com/thread/2054750/page/11?post=269

https://lihkg.com/thread/2123608/page/32?post=786

https://digital.discuss.com.hk/viewthread.php?tid=28560218

 

http://www.headphoneclub.com/thread-698512-1-1.html

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http://www.erji.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2178900

https://www.bilibili.com/s/video/BV1wZ4y1j7qy

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