YOUR HOME CINEMA SOUND
FLAX SPEAKERS
Focal invents Dôme, miniature speakers with exceptional performance, for all Home Cinema installations. Dôme has been designed with specific technologies to make rediscover true sound, without encroaching upon your living space. This high-end mini speaker succeeds in everything: refined design, sophisticated materials, “Made in France” high-quality design and 100 % Focal technologies from prestigious and renowned loudspeakers.
The Flax technology offers a distinct improvement in definition and better linearity in frequency response.
In wall, in ceiling, on furniture or standing, Dôme comes to your place naturally and embodies brilliantly and eloquently the true Focal sound. It will be the music source for every room from 320ft2 to 430ft2.
PERFORMANCE
MINI SPEAKER AND MAXI PERFORMANCE
FLAX SANDWICH CONE
Made in France but affordable, Flax cones are oriented towards acoustic performance, high-tech and give an original design to the brand’s speaker drivers!
After more than five years of research and development, engineers at Focal reveal in 2013 a new cone made of high-quality flax fibers. F cone are characterised by their natural sound, with low coloration, their richness of reproduction in the midrange register and their tighter bass.
THE UNIQUE QUALITIES OF FLAX
F cones are made of high-quality flax fibers core enclosed by two thin layers of glass fiber. They satisfy the key criteria of a high performance diaphragm : high internal damping, high velocity of sound and high flexural rigidity.
Rigidity
All these criteria cannot be met by a mono-material cone. Sandwich technology greatly influences the neutrality of the sound produced by the cone, something, which has always been Focal’s hallmark. The expertise gained from the sandwich technology of the Utopia and K2 Power ranges enabled Focal to develop a revolutionary flax-fiber cone conciliating the 3 criteria.
Lightness
Flax is twice as light as fiberglass, because the fiber is hollow. It also has very low elasticity which makes it ideal to increase the flexural rigidity of a sandwich structure. Moreover, it can be obtained in non-woven bundles of considerable diameter and it can therefore produce the thickness required for a sandwich.
Internal damping
Composite materials have properties suitable for applications where both rigidity and low mass are required. However, their disadvantage is that they lack damping, which leads to very poor control of vibrations. Recent developments in this field combining composites and natural fibers have brought unexpected opportunities. Flax fiber has an excellent internal damping of the same order of magnitude as the glass or Kevlar® fibers or aluminum.
MADE IN FRANCE AND AFFORDABLE
Flax cones are designed and manufactured in France, from french flax fiber. France is the main cultivator in Europe of fiber flax, principally in Flanders, Picardy, Normandy and the Pas-de-Calais region. French flax is considered the best in the world.
Synthetic fibers or foams originating from petrochemical resources are subject to inflation linked to the sharp rise in crude oil prices. Organic or ecological textiles, like flax, are thus becoming more and more pricecompetitive.
Because the “W” or "K2" sandwich have to be manufactured by hand, their range of application remains limited for reasons of cost. The industrial process developed to manufacture the "F" cones bring it within reach of very pricecompetitive product ranges.
EXCLUSIVE FOCAL TECHNOLOGIES
After Dôme Polyglass, the original satellite loudspeaker of the range, the more recent addition to the family, Dôme Flax, benefits from the innovative composite sandwich cone made with natural flax. It has already proved its worth with the high-fidelity Aria 900 loudspeakers and the Car Audio kits in the Performance range. The Flax technology offers a distinct improvement in definition and better linearity in frequency response. Both versions are made of an aluminum/magnesium inverted dome tweeter, other technology developed by Focal.
DESIGN
LIKE A " SOUND SPOT "
MULTI-DIRECTIONAL
Dôme is at the forefront of innovation. Its spectacular sound makes it ideal for spaces in the region of 40m2. This speaker is multi-directional and can be fitted to a wall, the ceiling or a stand with equal ease. Thanks to its combination of power and eloquence, it exemplifies the concept of 'sound spotlights'.
CLEVER MIX BETWEEN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY
Dôme design is functional, sophisticated but refined. Dôme is the balance between aesthetic and technology. Its round shape is ideal to avoid internal resonances that distort the purity of timbers. Observe it well, everything is smooth, no visible screw, even the complicated system of joints on pivot is perfectly integrated and beyond suspicion. Imagined as a swivelling « sound spot », Dôme becomes an ideal music source for each and every room from 320ft2 to 430ft2.