System Pics 2020

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The SL2 is certainly a very elegant design. Understated, sleek, cool……with their grills on.

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Not as much as most of the Focal range (IMHO). I can’t look at Focal speakers without thinking they’re missing a sink plunger.

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Clive, I would keep it down if I were you. They are everywhere and could at any moment assemble and exterminate, en masse.

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They’re going the wrong way!!!

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It would be funny if the next time Clive visits his Naim/Focal dealer…they surprised him by playing a Dalek…exterminate thru some Sopra,s.

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That would be like a double nightmare, Gazza. I can recall as a lad watching the Daleks from behind the sofa!

Fortunately my local dealer is less enthusiastic about Focals than me.

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Well mine has a few of the Chora ones which are quite good, but not the rest. Yes, i too watched from behind the sofa😬

The stance of the SL2 somehow reminds me of this chap.

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There’s a certain slouch to them, the bigger focals positively loom over you.

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Yes, but at least the SL2 appears to have its shirt tucked in!

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Thanks Filipe…

Last night into the wee hours – setting up my SL2s.
Total chaos in my office.


Left hand speaker was a doddle – it just slotted back into place, though dressing up to NACA5 took a little messing about…

However, the right hand speaker (nearest to the Fraim rack) decided not to play ball. This is the one the engineer almost pushed to the side from top box before I stopped him. I doubt he did any damage, but the tweeter assembly unit on this one is lightly off – I tried to correct this, but i was getting very tired and it was around 0300hrs! I will try again another time when i’m feeling up to it. For now, I have cheated by adjusting the tweeter plate to compensate.

Ho hum…
enjoy/ken

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She’s prettier than any speaker, @HiFiman. :grinning:

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And she may be a woofer!

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This is the SL2 finish I should have – matches my Fraim rack – but hey, beggars are not choosers, right!!!

Your SL2s – much better wood condition than mine!! :frowning:

Thanks Ken, I was fortunate to find this late pair last year with the help of Mr Underhill.

I hope you manage to align the tweeter on the right speaker sounds as though the tweeter arm has been knocked are the three screws that hold the horizontal arm in line.

I do often wonder if there is any way to treat the veneer on the older SL2s to bring back some of the lustre / grain that would have been there when they were new. I seem to recall this may have been discussed previously (perhaps on the old forum).
Would something like Howard Restor-a-finish be worth trying?

I have some his albums a guy I used to know through work Gerry Tighe, discovered quite by chance, as you do, that he was natural on the harmonica and Billy used him on a few of his albums. Must give them a spin.