Focal Shape: Innovative near-field listening monitors

Designed for demanding environments, combine an original design, a wide range of the company's own technologies and a varied option of settings that can be optimized depending on the acoustics of the listening room.

Focal Professional has rethought the concept of near-field monitors and highlights it in its new Shape line, presented in Music fair 2017, which was held in Frankfurt between 11 and the 14 April , and is made up of three models: Shape 40, 50 y 65.

It is first an ideal solution for very close field listening, from 60 cm, and offers amazing bass response; while the Shape 50 It is the most versatile monitor. It can be used in listening from 80 cm and provides extensive low frequency response even in small rooms. The Shape model 65 is the line reference. Although it is designed for close listening, This monitor offers high quality monitoring across the entire frequency spectrum.

All models offer class AB amplification to provide optimal control over the entire dynamic range of the audio signal.. Each monitor has a shelving filter for high and low frequencies. The crossover to 160 Hz (+/- 3 dB) Allows the correction of parasitic reflections due to the collation of monitors on a mixing console or reverberant areas. They also come equipped with an adjustable high-pass filter..

Shape monitors come with four rubber-finished decoupling tips to improve insulation with the contact surface. They also include two protective grilles that do not require tools to be removed..

These devices include double passive radiators and new woofers and tweeters. Designed for demanding environments, They combine a wide range of Focal's own technologies and a varied option of settings to be optimized depending on the acoustics of the listening room..

The development of driver technologies is part of Focal's DNA. The new Flax sandwich cones are composed of two materials: fiberglass and flax fiber. Combined as a sandwich (a layer of flax fiber lies between two layers of fiberglass) offer high rigidity, very light weight and low elasticity. Estos materiales proporcionan una mejora respecto a los conos de Polyglass de sus antecesoras CMS.

Focal, cuya marca es distribuida por Neotecnica, ha mejorado su tweeter de cúpula invertida de aluminio-magnesio con dos innovaciones mecánicas: el nuevo tweeter M-shaped y un suspensor dedicado, como el usado en los tweeters de las líneas SM6 y SM9.

El tweeter invertido M-shaped ofrece una directividad incluso más baja que el original tweeter de cúpula invertida, lo que se traduce en una mayor flexibildad a la hora de la ubicación de los monitores para su escucha. Besides, proporciona una mayor rigidez, reduciendo posibles distorsiones. Sumado a esto, el suspensor Poron permite una curva de respuesta mucho más lineal por debajo de 6kHz. Besides, the recessing has been designed to provide optimal directivity both horizontally and vertically.

The double passive radiator is a solution that allows you to combine, on the same monitor, a compact enclosure with a wide low frequency response, which facilitates a comfortable listening location depending on the characteristics of the studio.

When systems with bass reflex ports meet their limits in terms of integration (a port long enough to match the surface is required), The passive radiator becomes the ideal solution. Besides, Due to its low tuning frequency it allows the monitors to be placed very close to a wall.