Focal Sopra No.1......First for Sonic Performance

The Focal Sopra No.1 is the bookshelf version of the famous Sopra Series.Although it is a bookshelf design,it is compact and powerful and a concentration of technological innovation.It has very low distortion that gives it incredible clarity and very high definition.It provides a very fleshy sound with full and articulate bass.The overall coherence and harmonic richness gives the listener a surprising understanding of the music.

Focal is a French specialist speaker designer and manufacturer that still manufactures in France.It's research and development is almost unequalled in speaker design.With the technology learned from designing one of the greatest speakers of all time,the Grande Utopia that sells for $285000 AU.Focal has been able to design the Sopra range with advanced design principles. Focal has used some pretty special technologies in these truly magnificent speakers.They are proudly handmade in France.Focal speak of their obsession with the midrange register as they believe it is the most complicated to control in a sound system.Having identified resonances which alter definition in the suspension which connects the cone to the basket.Focal have designed a technology called "Tuned Mass Damper" where an additional mass oscillates in opposition to the resonance frequency to control it.It reduces drastically the distortion and increases the definition.

The Sopra line features an extremely light and rigid beryllium tweeter.focal has developed a system called infinite Horn Loading which reduces distortion by 30% and pushes definition to the maximum.the Sopras also feature Neutral Inductance Circuit technology where the magnetic field is no longer affected by the position of the voice coil.This solution permits to control the magnetic field to decrease the effects of distortion a give the sound a very highn definition and an unprecedented dynamic.

In the review of the Focal Sopra No.1 What Hifi magazine says ....."The Focal Sopra No.1's are impressively sophisticated speakers.These refined,forensic and pleasing in their ability to organise all that information effectively.Listen to the classical or small scale vocal-based music and the Focal Sopra 1's are elegant and charming and right up there with the finest speakers at this price."