Focal Kanta No. 2 Loudspeakers | REVIEW

The Focal Kanta No. 2 (website) speakers first caught my eye at an RMAF a year or two ago, speckled up in a brilliant citron yellow and sounding, well, swell. The sound was performing that tricky balancing act between leaping out into the room and providing a picture into a recording without launching full-scale ear assaults. Intriguing. I made a mental note of it, filing away the experience into my aural-cerebral notebook.  Words and Photos by Grover Neville Fast forward to this year, and when Focal-Naim America approached us about a review and gave us a choice of pretty much their entire lineup I knew immediately which one I wanted to hear. A little while later, though not much later–Focal-Naim America’s shipping department is fast —I had the Focal Kanta No. 2s in house.  A floorstanding speaker is a bit like a full, traditional American Thanksgiving Day meal. It serves up everything, satisfies all our pleasures, including the guilty ones, and generally departs with the same sense of gravitas and satisfaction it entered with. So too was the Focal Kanta No. 2 a hefty and satisfying listen, though it’s with considerably less satisfaction that I say goodbye to it. Set-Up […]