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. These materials provide an improvement over the Polyglass cones of their CMS predecessors..

Focal, whose brand is distributed by Neotecnica, has improved its aluminum-magnesium inverted dome tweeter with two mechanical innovations: the new M-shaped tweeter and a dedicated suspension, like the one used in the tweeters of the SM6 and SM9 lines.

M-shaped inverted tweeter offers even lower directivity than the original inverted dome tweeter, which translates into greater flexibility when it comes to locating the monitors for listening. Besides, provides greater rigidity, reducing possible distortions. Added to this, Poron suspension allows for a much more linear response curve below 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.