FOCAL 1000 IW LCR UTOPIA
FOCAL 1000 IW LCR UTOPIA
Made in France, the 1000 Series in-wall and in-ceiling sound solutions offer sensational Stereo and Home Cinema listening experiences.
FOCAL PRESENTS 1000 SERIES,
ITS NEW IN-WALL AND IN-CEILING RANGE,
INCLUDING TWO UTOPIA FLAGSHIP PRODUCTS!
Made in France, the 1000 Series in-wall and in-ceiling sound solutions
offer sensational Stereo and Home Cinema listening experiences.
The Focal Integration collection: the home of excellence
1000 Series embodies Focal's vast savoir-faire: exclusive technologies, unrivalled performance, multiple configurations and French craftsmanship. The seven integrated products feature flagship technology and include two Utopia products - the sign of ultimate workmanship and Focal's signature sound. These in-wall and in-ceiling loudspeakers are the ultimate, discreet alternative to a traditional indoor acoustic installation.
THE “W” COMPOSITE SANDWICH CONE
The “W” composite sandwich cone permits total optimization of the frequency response curve, thanks to the total control of three key parameters: lightness, rigidity and damping. At Focal, the letter “W” means Glass/ Glass, as it usually has two sheets of woven glass tissue that are “sandwiched” onto the structural foam core. The glass tissue benefits from the incredibly fine weaving of very long fibres. This choice offers a mass and a size clearly inferior to those in Aramid fibers or other Kevlar® fabrics, which generate coloration in the midrange. It’s also important to note that the molecular bond between the resin and the glass is greater than that obtained with Aramid fibres. The cone structure is more homogeneous and its behavior in flex is much more superior.
These unique characteristics of lightness and rigidity provide control of the signal transmission speed inside the material. Adjusting the thickness of the structural foam allows a very precise control of the “W” cone’s damping. The variation of the number of glass fibre sheets and the thickness of the central foam can easily optimize the cone’s behaviour according to the desired frequency range.When listening, the sound of the “W” cone is entirely transparent, has an excellent phase response and has a very low disortion rate (rigidity 20 times higher than Kevlar® or Aramid fibre).
RARE AND PRECIOUS BERYLLIUM
Due to its incredible rigidity, Beryllium represents the ultimate material for a tweeter dome.
FREQUENCY RESPONSE EXTENDED AT 40KHZ
Focal, after two years of research and development, produced a world first: a pure Beryllium inverted dome, able to cover more than five octaves (1000Hz – 40kHz). You may ask yourself why do we strive for an extended response at 40kHz, if the human ear can only hear up to 20kHz? If you can extend frequency response, you will improve the perception of transients and other micro details. As well, the linearity of the speaker’s response curve is mainly a function of three opposite parameters: lightness, rigidity and damping.
INCREDIBLE ACOUSTIC CARACTERISTICS
To this day, only one material permits a joining of these parameters: Beryllium. For domes with identical masses, Beryllium is seven times more rigid than Titanium or Aluminum, the latter two well known for their rigidity. This results in a sound wave propagation three times faster than Titanium and two and a half times faster than Aluminum. In the end, the linearity of the frequency response curve, the acoustic transparency and the impulse response of the Beryllium tweeter are maximized and offer near-perfect sound.
Tekniske data
Type of speaker: |
Closed-back in-wall |
| Speaker drivers: | 7 x 61/2″ (16.5cm) ‘W’ cone Bass; 2 x 31/8″ (8cm) ‘W’ cone ‘M’-shaped midranges; 1″ (27mm) pure Beryllium inverted dome tweeter |
| Sensitivity (2.83V/3 feet – 1m) | 93dB |
| Bandwidth (+/-3dB) | 38Hz – 40kHz |
| Low-frequency cut-off (-6dB) | 32Hz |
| Nominal impedance | 6Ώ |
| Minimal impedance | 3Ώ |
| Recommended amp power | 100 – 750W (8 Ώ) 200 – 1500W (4 Ώ) |
| Mounting diameter (HxL) | 276 x 1133.5 mm |
| Net weight (with grille) | 29.6kg |