Focal - The Successful Pursuit Of Aural Perfection
Focal has been creating benchmark acoustic equipment since 1979. During it's tenure it's evolved to become the benchmark for loudspeaker design and development, working with and mastering some of the world’s most difficult materials. Though its core businesses is high fidelity loudspeakers it's also branched out to amplifiers, interconnects, deadening and more.

Focal's historic core values are based on the union of technology, mechanics, extravagant materials and design. It's constantly pushing the limits of sound to offer you a truly unique listening experience. Focal’s ambition is to make every occasion you listen to music a moment of privilege, where music is respected and emotions are roused. For Focal, innovation and tradition come together to enhance the performance of high-fidelity sound and the beauty of music. The goal is to open a gateway to new sensations and emotions, giving you the chance to experience pleasure in its purest form.

To peruse the entire history and heritage of this French master simply pay a visit to the history page with its website by clicking here.

Utopia III Evo - Sound Excellence Akin To Nothing Else
When talking serious high-end home audio equipment; few will argue that Focal's superb Utopia III Evo range are among the world's finest loudspeakers, as they simply embody Focal excellence. Utilising lessons learned over decades of in-depth research, development and feedback; the Utopia III Evo range are Focal's most accomplished concept to date. They combine patented innovations, unrivaled performance and a style that turns every room into an acoustic sculpture.

Design Ideologies
The technological twin of Grande Utopia EM Evo, the Stella hi-fi speaker brings together Focal’s most remarkable innovations, in a lighter 3-way version. With its 33 cm woofer and multiple technologies, its sound tuning wonderfully reproduces the midrange. It reveals perfect definition throughout the frequency range, with an ideal balance between registers, all enhanced by a unique architecture.

Innovation By Focal
Stella Utopia EM Evo’s incorporate a 330 mm “W” woofer powered by an electromagnet motor, which is efficient from low bass to low midrange. The midrange is not to be outdone, thanks to the implementation of Focal’s best innovations; TMD surround, NIC magnetic circuit motor, MRR cabinet. The result is a sound of unparalleled quality.

An Acoustic Sculpture
Each loudspeaker is housed in a separate cabinet. These cabinets form the spectacular backbone of the loudspeaker, and can be tilted by the action of a leather-wrapped crank. This adjustable focus time function ensures the perfect sound image, depending on room configuration and listening position.

Four Defined Sections
From top to bottom; the Stella Utopia EM Evo features a two 165 mm midranges, a 27 mm tweeter and a 330 mm electromagnet woofer.

Refined Finishes
The Utopia III Evo range all stand out with their contemporary styling and distinctive silhouettes. Metallic colors inspired by the automotive world and timeless wood finishes complete the look of these loudspeakers.

The Best Components
Perfection is born of detail. Every component has been carefully selected. Large cross-section cables ensure transparency and naturalness. The acoustic wadding lining the interior of the subwoofer is dense, for controlled, precise bass. The rigidity of the cabinet, enhanced by machined aluminum rings around the loudspeakers; reinforces the overall coherence of the acoustics.

Design Features
The rich heritage of this astute and masterful designer, together with its ever-increasing technical acumen; is conducive to these components featuring a vast array of impressive design ideologies incorporating the latest technological advancements. Below we delve into some of these in more detail.

The “W” Membrane
The provides perfectly defined midrange and bass. By developing and manufacturing its own membranes, Focal pushes the limits of innovation in acoustics. The sandwich “W” membrane of the loudspeakers plays an essential role in sound reproduction. It consists of two sheets of glass placed on either side of a central foam body; a sandwich construction that enables us to master the three key parameters of a good loudspeaker: lightness, rigidity and damping. This flagship membrane of Focal know-how perfectly optimizes the frequency response curve, providing low distortion and total listening transparency. Sound is the ultimate in precision.

The Beryllium Tweeter
To provide for exceptional treble. Membrane shape and materials are essential for high-fidelity reproduction. For exceptional treble, our engineers have developed the Beryllium inverted dome tweeter in pure Beryllium. Thanks to its unrivaled rigidity, Beryllium is the material of choice for high-frequency loudspeakers. Developed and patented by Focal, the pure Beryllium inverted dome is capable of covering more than five octaves from 1000 to 40000 Hz; for perfect perception of micro-details.

The Electromagnetic Motor
With Utopia, Focal introduced the EM woofer with electromagnetic motor. A breakthrough so significant that it has been given its full name: Utopia EM. The woofer with electromagnetic motor achieves this technological leap forward in bass. The principle: the permanent magnet is replaced by an electromagnet. As a result, the motor’s power can be inexhaustible or modulated. One figure: the BL (force factor) of the woofer in the previous Grande Utopia was a respectable 18.5 T.m, now it’s 34 T.m, an increase of 83%. We have used a technology capable of achieving extreme performance: the electromagnet. Its power supply is external and features a signal recognition system. The supply voltage can be adjusted in 6 steps for a power output of 9 Watts to 90 Watts. This gives you a choice of a whole range of bass sounds, from deep and round to taut and live, and four intermediate levels to program a bass sound à la carte. These settings ensure unprecedented bass control, while keeping control of the loudspeaker/room coupling.

TMD Suspension Systems
This stabilized surround eliminates vibrations. While Focal engineers are experts in the development of exclusive diaphragms, they also innovate in all the components that make up the loudspeakers, such as the surround that connects the diaphragm to the frame, the performance of which must be mastered. Introduced in 2015, Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) technology with harmonic damping consists of the addition of finely positioned toroidal weights to stabilize the surround for even greater sonic neutrality. This technology enhances the midrange and the erratic behavior of the surround between 1 kHz and 2 kHz.

OPC+ Filter
The notion of fine-tuning the sound, without altering the integrity of the signal, was integrated right from the start of the development of the Utopia EM range. Grande Utopia offers a huge variety of settings in the bass, midrange and treble registers, for a total of 1,458 possible combinations. The OPC+ is part of this approach. It offers the ability to adapt the loudspeaker’s response curve to the room’s acoustics, to customize the tonal balance according to the reverberation time linked to the size of the room, and to adjust the frequency response of the loudspeaker.room size, the nature of light or matt surfaces, furnishings, or simply individual sound preferences. Extremely sophisticated (4-way configuration, doubled by multiple settings) and distributed over 3 levels in the loudspeaker, this crossover requires 16 hours of assembly, using only quality components determined through comparative listening.

The Power Flower
This equated to more energy and optimized ventilation. The performance of a loudspeaker is directly related to the magnetic energy transmitted by the magnet. To develop high-performance woofers, our engineers created the multi-ferrite magnet, or Power Flower™ technology, which brings together several stacked ferrite rings distributed around the central core. This technology combines very high magnetic energy transmission, for tenfold power handling, with optimal cooling of the loudspeaker: the spacing between the blocks allows free circulation of hot air, ensuring unrivaled ventilation of the coil. As it heats up less, it no longer represents a limitation on power, even after prolonged listening at high sound levels. Another advantage is that the coil is decompressed because it is totally open-back to the outside: distortion, linked to mechanical compression phenomena, is considerably reduced. This technology has been an exclusive Focal signature for many years.

Gamma Structure
An anti-vibration cabinet is important. As the surface area of a loudspeaker cabinet is greater than that of the loudspeaker diaphragms, it can radiate sounds that are distorted by the resonances of the cabinet structure. This alters reproduction and blurs the sound image. To prevent such “interference”, it is essential that the cabinet is as inert as possible. At Focal, craftsmen use MDF (Medium Density Fiber) to achieve this inertia. This stable, heavy structure is anti-vibration. It has been optimized by vibratory mapping of the loudspeaker walls to reinforce or modify the structure wherever a weak point appeared.

NIC Technology
For very high-definition sound, control of the magnetic flux circulating in the loudspeaker is essential. Focal’s astute acousticians have created a magnetic circuit of incredible stability, guaranteeing perfectly controlled sound: Neutral Inductance Circuit (NIC) technology. This patented technology resides in a Faraday ring whose dimensions, material and positioning are optimized to make the magnetic flux stable and the sound highly precise.

Electrical Specifications
– Nominal configuration: four-way 13″ & 6.5″ & 6.5″ & 1.1″ floor speaker set
– Continuous power handling: 50 Watts
– Maximum power handling: 1000 Watts
– Frequency response: 22 Hz – 40000 Hz
– Sensitivity: 94 dB
– Nominal impedance: 8 Ohms

Physical Specifications
– Height: 1558 mm
– Width: 553 mm
– Depth: 830 mm
– Weight: 170 kg

Documentation
– Technical sheet
– User manual

Important Disclaimers
Given the dynamic nature of electronics industries these days; below are listed some very important specifics you need to be aware of.

Brand Authorization And Stock Sourcing
We are NOT an authorised Australian dealer of this brand. This position can stem from a variety of reasons. Sometimes we don't sell enough to warrant asking for an account. Sometimes we only want specific products from said brand. Sometimes we cannot agree upon certain policies. Sometimes the brand doesn't have an official Australian importer. Whatever beeth the reason; rest assured it's nothing malicious. We've just not seen the need to setup an account hitherto. However being in business for so many decades is conducive to us being good friends with those who are authorised dealers of this brand. Meaning it'll be sourced through legitimate channels.

Pricing Structure
Whilst we endeavor to offer the best price possible, we ask that if you do find a better price elsewhere from an authorised dealer; please contact us. Also be aware that we regularly conduct group buys and sales, therefore pricing can sometimes be subject to change without notice.

Stock Structure
Being a dynamic store is conducive to our inventory constantly changing. We list only a small portion of our stable online, usually products most popular. Aside from these we also stock numerous other variants and configurations of these products, hence if you don’t see what you’re after please contact us.

Shipping
All our products are shipped with registered and insured postage. Upon ordering you’ll be issued with a receipt, a consignment note via which you can track your order, and we’ll also SMS you photos of the package for identification purposes.

Technical support
This last one we cannot emphasise enough! Please contact us if you require any further information or assistance with the setup and use of this product, especially pertaining to aspects more technical. As we want you to get the very best from this product.