Focal Dôme Polyglass

The Dôme Polyglass's integrated base doubles as a wall or ceiling mount Focal's Dôme Polyglass speaker is tiny, but its futuristic look certainly caught our eye. Its dome-shaped, lacquered aluminum body is built onto an integrated base that doubles as a wall- or ceiling-mount bracket. And with Focal, you know every design detail has been thought through to provide accurate sound. This speaker would make a great choice for listeners who want high-performance sound, but would rather not give up living space to traditional box-shaped speakers. Focal is one of the most fanatical companies we know when it comes to speaker driver design. Take the 4" woofer in this satellite. Its Polyglass cone consists of a cellulose pulp (paper) layer treated with molten glass microballs. The resulting material has roughly 10 times the rigidity of polypropylene, despite its light weight. It all adds up to natural sounding midrange and mid-bass. The Dôme Polyglass's other driver is also unusual: a 1" inverted dome tweeter crafte...