Focal has a new form factor for their headphones, but its not all peaches and cream. There are some growing pains when transforming your fan favorite noise cancelling headphone into a typical closed and open back. When you remove Digital Signal Processing from the equation, it leaves some things to be desired!

This is one of my first videos and re-watching it over and over again with a new perspective, it does seem like I have glossed over a lot of sound signature on the Bathys. To specify what I am talking about with DSP... It sounds like a Hadenys, but with the sub bass added back in. The Hadenys is amazing, but really lacked that LF presence I needed to enjoy it as a daily driver.

Also I should like an earpad shill. And I am, because I develop them for a job. You can do a lot of tuning of sound and comfort with earpads which can complete a headphones overall appeal.

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I prefer Sheepskin over Suede, but they are both similar in sound signatures. Your choice is fuzzy or smooth to be honest.

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0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Azurys
1:10 - Hadenys
1:49 - Hadenys Stock Earpads
2:52 - Hadenys Dekoni Sheepskin Earpads
4:02 - Bathys
6:16 - Outro - DSP Wins

Transparency Statement:
All headphones were borrowed and nothing was received for this video.

I work for Dekoni Audio. This video was not sponsored by Dekoni Audio. I did not design the Bathys earpads, however I was part of marketing for the project.