Focal Utopia Headphones - Acoustic Sound Purity

The Utopia are the reference high fidelity headphones manufactured in France by Focal.They are the result of 35 years of innovation,development and manufacturing of high end speaker drivers and loudspeakers.The Focal Utopias are the world's first audiophile headphones to be equipped with totally open-backed full-range speaker drivers with pure beryllium "M"-shaped domes.They also feature lambskin leather ear cushions and a carbon fibre yoke.

With the Utopia,Focal challenged it's engineers to create a reference headphone that equals the sonic excellence found in their other premium lines in hifi,automotive  and professional monitoring.Focal are known for another famous Utopia,The Grand Utopia EM Reference hifi speakers that sell for $285,000 AU.

Focal's designers realised that the experience users have with headphones compared to a high-end pair of speakers is one of an incredibly limited soundstage.With that goal in mind,Focal's engineers began to think of the newest Utopia as the world's first,wearable,full-range,ultra near-field loudspeaker rather than strictly a pair of headphones.All aspects of the headphones were considered in the design from the padding used in the earcups,the leather used to wrap them for the ultimate comfort and of course the beryllium drivers.

Beryllium is thirty times the cost of gold,but has unique characteristics such as the ultimate rigidity to weight ratio and the ability to vibrate 50,000 times a second.This ability produces some of the most airy,open sounding,yet sonically accurate music in any genre.

The reviews of the Focal Utopia headphones speak in accolades.Www.headphone.com said of them....."We have not heard a headphone with this level of accuracy,smoothness,dynamism and plain just fun combined into one.With the Utopia Focal has hit it so far out of the park,we're not even looking for the ball.In the end we have heard no other headphone that is so incisive and intensely accurate but yet so luscious and emotionally engrossing."