Focal Utopia 3 Scala speakers

Wonderful speaker. One of the best you can buy in that price bracket from everything I heard, and I heard a lot. I would say it works best in a small or medium room so it is possible some might be looking for the next model up for increased bottom end for a very large room. It seems way too early for a new model, but I guess that is possible. The Scala is superior to its predecessors by a wide margin.

Cool, sounds good.

I listened to the Scala in a very large room and found the bass way too overpowering and muddy, really really sloppy. The mid range was to die for though

Hmmm....which amp did you use?

A few months ago I was very surprised to see a fellow audiogoner who moved from Focal Utopia Scala to a pair Elac speaker (costing about half the price of the Scalas) which in his opinion were better than the Scalas. Mike60 was also involved in that discussion. You can find it here:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vdone&1206294768&openfrom&66&4#66

However, this is not the reason I have started this thread. I visit regularly the www.audiomarkt.de site, and this year I have seen two-three dealers offering the Scalas still wrapped and with warranty at prices between 11.5-13.5 euros when the retail prices in Europe are between 20-25k euros. Also, in the Netherlands, I know a dealer who advertised two pairs of Scala at 15k euros/pair.

This is why I was wondering whether it is something wrong with them.

I do not think Focal will discontinue the Scala soon. Certainly not. More likely is the case of a few grey market models and/or a few dealers who have dropped the Focal line and now clear their stocks.

I am just curious to hear opinions from people who have compared the Scalas with other speakers similarly priced.