“... the Focal Utopia certainly ranks overall as the finest dynamic headphone I’ve experienced to date. It is among the most comfortable, sonically neutral, and well-built headphones I’ve ever reviewed.”
— STEVEN STONE, THE ABSOLUTE SOUND
“The Utopia has an extraordinarily refined top end and a carefully detailed midrange that equals or beats that of any headphone or speaker I’ve heard. Bass is deep and unexaggerated.”
— MARK FLEISCHMANN, SOUND&VISION, JULY 2017
“The Focal Utopia is a sexy beast with rock-solid build quality; ... and sound quality to die for. I love this headphone.”
— TYLL HERTSENS, INNER FIDELITY, AUGUST 2016
Utopia is the reference high-fidelity headphones manufactured in France by Focal. They are the result of 35 years of innovation, development and manufacturing of high-end speaker drivers and loudspeakers. Equipped with exclusive technology, they offer striking realism, neutrality, dynamics and clarity, for sound with unrivalled purity. Utopia is unique they are the world’s first audiophile headphones to be equipped with totally open-backed full-range speaker drivers with pure Beryllium ’M’-shaped domes. They meet all the requirements expected of high-end headphones due to their sophisticated and elegant design and to purposeful materiality, such as the carbon fibre yoke and true lambskin leather ear cushion.
Read a white paper from Focal on the ELEAR and UTOPIA design story and principles.
Features
Basket- 50 mm diameter
Surround
- Only 70 microns thanks to the NBR Material
- The lightest surround never made
«M» shape dome
- Innovation coming from K2 Power
- 40 mm diameter
- Beryllium for Utopia
Voice coil
- First voice coil without any support
- 25 mm diameter and 4,4 mm high
- The smallest and lightest voice coil never made
Motor
- Total weight:135 mg
Specifications
Impedance: 80 Ohms
Sensitivity: 104dB SPL / 1mW @ 1kHz
THD: <0.2% @ 1kHz / 100dB SPL
Frequency response: 5Hz - 50kHz
Loudspeaker: 137⁄64“ (40mm) pure Beryllium “M” shape dome
Weight: 1.08lb (490g)
Cable length: 9.8ft (3m)
Connectors: 1 x Jack 01/4“ (6.35mm) stereo 2 x 03⁄8“ (9.5mm) Lemo®
1 x 4-pin XLR to 2 x 03⁄8“ (9.5mm) Lemo®
Carrying case: 1253⁄64“x1015⁄64“x629⁄64“ (326x260x164mm)
