this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
1 points (100.0% liked)

Headphones

17 readers
1 users here now

A community for discussion around all topics related to headphones and personal audio.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
communick@hi-fi.community
1
Focal Bathys - Critical review (vs XM5 and others) (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by Livestock110@alien.top to c/headphones@hi-fi.community
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Review in the comments! Vs Sony 1000XM5 and other Focal headphones. I have mixed feelings.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Final_Ad792@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Really not a huge fan of the Bathys either. I'd say it was close to a Celestee sound-wise, but being held back by some kind of DSP. The usual Focal slam sounded especially awful on them.

I really wanted to love them since it combined everything I like on paper (very dynamic Focal house sound in a smaller Bluetooth package), but instead they don't feel as versatile as the more common and feature-packed ANC headphones, while still not sounding as great as proper Focals.

Still better than a stock Elegia I suppose, but it's also much more expensive and can't really be "fixed" unlike the Elegia.