Focal

Focal - Utopia

Name: Focal - Utopia
Brand: Focal
SKU: Focal - Utopia
Price: 279999.0 INR
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

Flagship Open-Back Headphone

₹ 279,999

MRP: ₹ 399,999

Discontinued

This product is permanently discontinued by the manufacturer and continues to live on in Headphone Zone's Museum.

Unfortunately, even if we desire to, we won't be able to resurrect this product. The Museum is where we pay our respects to end-of-life, old, archived, but not forgotten products. This page was made with a lot of love and will live on for posterity. What to say, we're sentimental people. 😔

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Totally worth

Utopia are totally worth its premium. They look beautiful and feels quality (mostly metal, carbon fiber). Cable is thick and long with neutrik quarter inch termination and lemo connectors. They fit snugly and comfortably. Its not feather weight; feels solid on head.
The sound is extremely high quality. It is very musical as well as technically brilliant. They are spotless throughout the frequency spectrum and excel at every genre.

Designed in
France

Balanced Sound Signature

Museum with a Balanced sound signature presents a precise sound and an enriching listening experience, where sounds are naturally presented without extreme emphasis on any region. With a pair of headphones with this sound signature, you can hear audio with clarity and detail. The sound is vivid and revealing, a perfect mixture of instruments and vocals, lows, mids, and highs. This sound signature works for most music listeners who like switching between various music genres like Classical, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Folk and Pop.

2 Years of
Warranty

Ideal for Audiophiles

Ideal for
Indoor Use

Open-Back Design

Metal
Build

40mm Beryllium
Drivers

Replaceable Cables

A pair of headphones with a replaceable cable has many benefits, and one of them is if the connecting cable has a problem, it doesn’t mean that you have to buy a new one. If the connecting cable gets pulled or damaged, you can replace it and keep using your good-old headphones or IEMs. This way, your headphones will be protected and will last longer. With the advancements in cable manufacturing, you now get a variety of replacement cables with various termination options, lengths and quality.

Needs Amplification

DESCRIPTION

The Focal Utopia is the world’s first audiophile headphone to be equipped with totally open-backed full-range speaker drivers with pure Beryllium ’M’-shaped domes. Thanks to this, you get a frequency response ranging from 5Hz to over 50kHz without any crossover or passive filtering. The reproduction of the audio signal is thus hyper-realistic and of unrivalled purity, one that will make you completely forget the fact that you are wearing headphones.

The cable supplied with Utopia was specifically selected for its capability to respect the original audio signal, such as its very low impedance (< 90 mΩ/metre). It is totally symmetrical in order to offer extremely low crosstalk (< 70 picofarads). The shielding protects it from electromagnetic interference. Finally, the 9.5mm Lemo® connector and the 6.35mm Neutrik® stereo jack enable easy customisation.

Particular attention has been paid to the design of Utopia, in terms of use, comfort and overall aesthetics. The Pads are made with high-quality memory foam and covered in a supple layer of Fenestrated Lambskin. The headband is also covered in Lambskin. The Cups and Grill Mesh are made using durable aluminium with a gloss finish akin to that of a luxury automobile while the Yokes are built using carbon fibre, continuing on the theme of luxury sports cars.

The Utopia uses technology developed exclusively by Focal in France. To ensure that each and every product is high-performance, it has to feature a 100% Focal design. This allows complete control over the design and quality control processes in order to guarantee high-quality loudspeakers, headphones and earphones that offer enduring value.

Sound

FREQUENCY GRAPH

CHEAT SHEET

Regions of the frequency spectrum

SUB BASS
(20Hz - 80 Hz)

The first section of the frequency spectrum is the sub-bass. Everything below 80Hz is sub-bass, so generally, you need a subwoofer or a good pair of headphones (open-back headphones, for example) to hear this region. This region comprises instruments like the Kick Drum and the Bass Guitar. You should be able to hear Sub-Bass if you’re listening on monitors or headphones. But if you’re listening on a laptop or a phone, there’s no way you will hear that.

MID BASS
(80 Hz - 300 kHz)

After the Sub-Bass region, we get into the region known as the Bass or Mid-Bass. This region consists of everything between 80 and 300 hertz. In this area, we’ve got instruments like bass guitar and the low end of a snare. Lots of the low-end vocals as well, because male vocals are going to have the fundamental below 200Hz in most cases.

LOWER MIDRANGE
(300 Hz - 1000 kHz)

Next, if you go from 300 Hz up to 1000 kHz, this is known as the Lower Midrange, and this is a crucial region for music because this is where you get a lot of buildup with guitars, vocals, and even the top-end of the bass guitar especially. Lower Midrange is an area guilty of adding mud to a mix and clarity in this region lifts a track exponentially.

UPPER MIDRANGE
(1 kHz - 6 kHz)

Human hearing focuses inherently on this frequency range. So it’s crucial to get this range right. This region consists of the main focus of the track (e.g. vocals) and synths. Be aware that this is also where you can start to get into harshness and aggressive tones.

TREBLE
(6 kHz - 10 kHz)

After the Upper Midrange, we’ve got the Treble region between 6kHz and 8 kHz, and this is where things start to get harsh. This region is where we have brittleness from instruments like the Hi-Hats and Cymbals. This is also a crucial range for clarity and aggression, especially for female vocals.

AIR
(10 kHz - 20 kHz)

At the end of the frequency spectrum, we get to the Air region or the Top End. This region consists of everything above 10 kHz. This is where we have air and this is where we get a sense of shine and sparkle in our music.

SPECS

AUDIO SPECIFICATIONS

DRIVER	40 mm
FREQUENCY RESPONSE	5 Hz - 50 kHz
SENSITIVITY	104 dB SPL / 1 mW @ 1 kHz
THD	<0,2% @ 1 kHz / 100 dB SPL
IMPEDANCE	80 Ohms

CONTROLS & CONNECTIVITY

TYPE	Circum-aural open-back headphones
LOUDSPEAKER	137/64" (40 mm) pure Beryllium 'M' shape dome
CABLE TYPE	9.8ft (3m)
PLUG TYPE	1 X Jack 01/4“ (6.35 mm) Stereo 2 X 03⁄8“ / (9.5 mm) Lemo®

DESIGN & BUILD

WEARING STYLE	Over-Ear/Open-Back
WEIGHT	1.08lb (490g)
CARRYING CASE	927/32"x929/64"x629/64" (250x240x120 mm)

IN THE BOX

BOX CONTENTS	1. Focal Utopia Headphones
	2. Rigid carrying case with thermoform internal padding
	3. 1 x 4 ft. (1.2m) OFC 24 AWG cable with 1/8” (3.5 mm) unbalanced TRS jack connector
	4. 1 x 10 ft. (3m) OFC 24 AWG cable with balanced 4-point XLR connector
	5. 1 x jack adapter, 1/8” (3.5 mm) point socket – 1/4” (6.35 mm) point plug

2 Year Warranty

Don't sweat it, this Focal - Utopia comes with a 2 Year warranty from Focal that covers manufacturing defects. All products featured on Headphone Zone are backed by an original manufacturer's warranty.

Read more about Focal's warranty in India.

True Sound, Everywhere - Made in France Since 1979

Focal is synonymous with audio excellence, dedicated to delivering unmatched sound quality across loudspeakers and speaker drivers. Choose Focal for the true essence of original work—experience the distinctive Focal Sound.Versatile in various environments, Focal products bring signature sound to your life. Enjoy Focal's renowned audio quality at home with loudspeakers, hi-fi headphones, sound bars, and integrated systems. Whether in your garden, on the road, or on the move, Focal lets you rediscover your music with fidelity. Professional loudspeakers for recording studios also embody the iconic Focal Sound.

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"It is definitely one of the best sounding headphones I’ve heard in a long time and I think it deserves a place in the current top of the line listings when talking about high-end audiophile headphones."

"Focal has aimed for the moon when it comes to performance, directing its flagship offering straight at the very best the headphone establishment can manage. It has succeeded."

"With the Utopia, everything is in such fantastically precise focus, so crisply delivered that you will — as clichéd as the saying is — hear whole new depth and layers to your favorite songs."

"Focal’s Utopia headphones are a bleeding-edge statement from a pedigreed loudspeaker manufacturer that has made the most of its speaker-designing experience."

"The Focal Utopia is a sexy beast with rock-solid build quality; looks with just the right mix of conservatism and bling; brimming with technological innovations; and sound quality to die for."

"Overall, the Utopia can be considered an engaging headphone, with a stimulating and exciting signature, but there’s undeniably a certain magic in Utopia’s euphoric and fast-paced sound."

"So the Focal Utopia headphones are arguably a perfect pair — but there’s one other breathtaking thing about these headphones, and that’s the price."

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