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DÔME
®
, the sonic spotlight
Creating Dôme was to accept a
real challenge. Because for Focal,
whatever the loudspeaker, whatever
its size, its price, the primary goal
is to offer the best possible perfor-
mance. This is the Focal sound,
“The Spirit of Sound”.
When we created the “Grande Utopia
Be”, it was almost easy: inventing the
best loudspeaker in the World, without
any size, price or means limitation, it
was simply imagining the technolo-
gies to reach the ultimate goal.
With Dôme and its 5.5” (14cm)
diameter only, it’s a different story,
since we wanted to have the maximum
music, in spite of these new constraints.
A fascinating challenge that drove us
to imagine new solutions, new shapes
with noble materials, speakers with
outstanding performance.
A body in die-cast aluminum alloy,
an ultra-glossy black finish, Dôme
design was thought to be functio-
nal, sophisticated, but clean in the
extreme. Simple, its round shape
itself is justified, it’s perfect to avoid
the creation of internal resonances
(standing waves), which alter com-
pletely the tone purity. Everything is
smooth, not a screw is visible, even
the joint system on pivot is perfectly
integrated, unsuspected in spite of
its complexity. Devised like a rotating
”Sonic Spotlight”, Dôme is a perfect
music source for any room in the
house, that we wished as essential as
a light source.
> The pivot system virtually placed in the loudspeaker center
permits to tip over Dôme and to orientate it over 90°.