I look forward to reading your impressions!
My sense is that the diversity in opinions about the Clear Mg possibly reflects a few things. For one thing, since it’s still early days, we don’t have a very large sample of opinions, which means that the contrast between the few favorable and critical reviews is magnified somewhat.
For another, I think people have been surprised by the more laid-back tuning, which seems to be something of a departure from Focal’s house sound. Am I right in thinking that Focal headphones are typically either neutral-bright, as with the Elex and Utopia, or that they’re close enough to neutral for people to hear them slightly differently, depending on their perspectives (as with the Elegia, Stellia, OG Clear). I see lots of people describe the OG Clear, for instance, as neutral-warm, and I can see why, although, personally, I’d describe them as being slightly bright. I should add a big caveat here: I’ve not heard the Celestee or the Radiance yet.
Has there been another Focal headphone tuned like the Clear Mg? If not, then this new release may have been a surprise. And it may not have lived up to some people’s expectations.
Finally, and I mention this as a general statement, not one directed to any specific person, I think it helps to bear in mind the preferences and points of view of individual reviewers, especially when we can extrapolate from them according to our own perspectives. @Resolve, thankfully, is explicit about where he’s coming from in appreciating both the original and the Mg Clears in his review. To give another example, I’m not as familiar with Crinacle’s preferences but the good thing is that it’s possible to get a sense of them from his many reviews and from his rankings - he’s also highly-discerning and is firm in his opinions, which may throw his comparison between the original and the new version into sharper relief.
It’ll be interesting to see if a consensus develops about the Clear Mg. Or not.
One last thought: am I right in thinking that the original Clear was a widely-praised headphone - one for which there was a favorable consensus? Did it cater to a large number of people given its closeness to a neutral tuning? (Again, it has struck me that different people describe the original Clear as neutral, slightly warm, or slightly bright). Is the Clear Mg simply tuned a bit further away from this?