Haha to be honest, I haven’t had to fix one of these headphones myself so I don’t actually know. I’m going off what a couple people who’ve worked with returned Focals have said to me.
I agree. I do the Elex is one of the closest headphones that come to a spiritual successor the HD600 but you’re right, they innately have different sounds. Sometimes I find some with these reviews, it’s hard to make the comparisons that people want because two products, though they may graph similarly, present so differently that its like apples and oranges.
I chose to write it as a comparative review however because the people who might be looking to buy Elex are generally those looking to upgrade from the HD600 or have only heard of the HD600. As for the food analogy, I’d say it’s more like eating fried rice made with jasmine vs sushi rice. Jasmine rice is ideal but sushi rice is still pretty darn good and hardly takes away from the quality of the meal.