Upgrade from B&W 802D1 to Focal Utopia Scala Evo


If you had the chance to upgrade from  the B&W 802D1 to the  FOCAL UTOPIA SCALA EVO, which would you choose and why? 

onehorsepony

I don't have a functioning streamer. My Mark Levinson 5101 SACD player / streamer / DAC combo is my primary source. However, the 'Music Stream' app that controls it all does not play well with Tidal and constantly crashes and doesn't sound good when working.

So my primary source of music is the CD player on the Mark Levinson 5101.

I am trying to figure out what to start with, the speakers now have 150 hours on them. Do I start with speaker cables, or interconnect cables? The room is average as far as treatment goes. I can't convert it into a studio since it is our home as well.

 

 

@onehorsepony I would start with cables that are on the amplifiers - power cords, speaker cables, interconnects. 
But again, unless you have 200hrs on the speakers, I wouldn’t touch a thing. You just don’t know what the sound is and in what direction you should be going with any upgrades. 

I'm not, I'm just letting them run when I go out, I have about 150 hours on them now.

I'm not familiar with analog EQs, just know of McIntosh MQ112 and Schiit Loki Max as mentioned.

I really don’t know what to expect after waiting 300 to 400 hours for these speakers to break in. I’m playing them mostly when I’m not home, so there is a disconnect between the speakers ’breaking in’ or my brain ’breaking in’. Yes, I’m skeptical that anyone would design a speaker that needs such a long time to break in.