Introducing Focal

Since its founding in 1979, the French firm Focal has become world-renowned for both its loudspeakers and headphones.

The company crafts loudspeakers from modestly price satellites, through to the Grande Utopia loudspeakers which, at several hundred thousand dollars a pair, really are “zero compromise” loudspeakers. After all, these weigh more than 250 kilograms!

Some of Focal’s unusual features are inverted dome tweeters, which reduce directivity, and pure beryllium tweeters in its higher-level models.

The company applies this kind of technology to its first-class headphones as well, with both open and closed back over ear headphones, the higher end models also using pure beryllium for their drivers.