To all focal utopia owner

**RedGTiVR6** · 07-29-2005, 09:17 AM

check all of your speaker connections

I don't see anything immediately in those pictures, but gimme some time and I'll look more indepth....probably when I get home tonight

the installer? so you had someone else install all of this?

if so take it back to him and tell him it's not sounding like you think it should!

**00christian00** · 07-29-2005, 09:33 AM

I leaved the car many times to him telling it wasn't right but never changed,now i'm tired.I spent a lot of money for a bad and ugly install,i hope i can fix it by myself since the installer isn't capable.How can i know the red and black connector coming from the car are actually of the right color?Using a voltmeter?
Today i'm going to buy an audiocontrol matrix,and the seller is a focal dealer,i hope he can help me,but i don't count too much on him,he didn't even know the utopia could be bi-amped.

**RedGTiVR6** · 07-29-2005, 09:37 PM

are you 100% sure those are the utopia crossovers?

I don't see a switch anywhere on there for bi-amping, or even a jumper for it for that matter.

one question I have is what's up with the excessive silicone hot glue looking stuff...whatever it's called.

I know some is completely normal, but after seeing it on the zip-tie in that one picture, I'm not so sure that all of it is factory from Focal...

are those crossovers just zip-tied to your door? or are those screws actually holding the cross-over to the door and the zip-tie is doing something else?

**rmjjensen** · 07-29-2005, 09:43 PM

yeah that's a lot of hot glue. Try taking the board completely off the plastic casing and get pictures of the actual traces.

I have a feeling the previous owner rigged it up to biamp not really knowing how to do it.

**00christian00** · 07-29-2005, 11:14 PM

The xover is fixed to the door by that black strings,the glue was only to fix them more steadly,it was applied by the installer,there was no visible glue before.
Yes,they are the original xover,i still have the plastic cover with focal utopia written on.
I talked to another installer today,he seemed quite prepared on the focal,he said the jumper for bi-amping are the red one ,like the one near the tweeter level but he couldn't remember if they were 4 or 2 like i have.It's strange because the italian focal distributor talked about something near the inputs,whilst my jumper level is totally opposite,i think there could be another 1 or two on the input.
However this installer agreed with me that they didn't sound like it should.

**Spike** · 07-30-2005, 08:21 AM

whats up buddy. May depend on the age of the speakers, but my bran new Focal 165W's have TWO (thats right 2) little red jumper thingies for each crossover (So 4 total, 2 on the right crossover and 2 on the left).

Now, as you said, there are two sets of little pins on either side of the two tone controls. You take this little red jumper (well 2 of for each crossover) and connect the two pins

BiAmping basically allows you to use two amps, one for each set of spekaers (1 for the tweets and one for the mids), by adding that little pin, you are just connecting the two channels together (Don't do this on the utopias at the xover level, but on some speakers, there is a bar connecting two sets of ports on the back, and one removes the bar for biamping)

Good luck mate