David M.
I have never heard anything like it before.
I've always loved Hi-fi and Home Theatre. My father is a musician and a music teacher and when I was about 12, he gave me my first stereo system composed of an old JVC amp and speakers he built himself. This is also when I started to get into headphones, which later led to my apprenticeship at a small TV & Hifi store.
About one year ago, a friend who works at another store which sells high-end audio (Focal, Naim Audio, B&W, Dynaudio, etc.) asked me if I wanted to come to a reopening event they held. This is where I heard the Focal Elegia headphones for the first time. I was blown away by the sound of these headphones. Prior to this experience I didn't think it was possible to build such a large soundstage and an open sound in a closed-back pair of headphones. Since then I have also experienced the Utopia, Clear and Stellia which are all great headphones too. The same day I also auditioned the Scala Utopia EVO which is an amazing speaker. I have never heard anything like it before and after.
I really love my Focal Elegia. The bass is tight, the mids are detailed, the treble are crisp and the build quality is superb. This is what I expect from a high-end pair of headphones. But what astonishes me the most is their extreme flexibility no matter what kind of music I play they handle it with ease, be it Trance, Drum and Bass, Prog or Indie Rock. And it deserves to be mentioned, these headphones go low... very low. You really hear everything it's a bliss.
Currently the Elegia is my only Focal product but it certainly won't be my last. Maybe my next home theatre upgrade will include some Focal speakers? Who knows ;-)