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For Focal, Chorus symbolizes one of the most stimulating challenges for the loudspeaker and refined product manufacturer that we are: to allow the greatest number of consumers to access our technological innovations. For the first two generations Chorus (2000) and Chorus S (2003), the objective was to keep high-end sound and maintain sophisticated Focal technologies by adapting our industrial machine to the highest standards. While outsourcing had become a key economic strategy for the majority of manufacturers, we chose on the contrary to heavily invest in our manufacturing process in order to achieve an exceptional sound quality while at the same time remaining competitive. It is the only possible way in this path of permanent innovation: development and manufacturing of loudspeakers “Made in France”, design by cabinet-makers, mastery of quality, total autonomy in the design and development of our products. This strategy has been key to the success of the preceding Chorus lines.
This third generation known as Chorus 800 V will go even further in this strategy. Technological innovation does not only solely touch strategic components of the speaker, but the actual whole of the design. Thanks to the use of advanced and exclusive materials, elaborate manufacturing techniques of the cabinets, the Chorus 800 V line of today shines with a unique, high-end aesthetic.
Chorus V isn’t only a performing product line, ideal for entering the Focal universe, but objects that will inhabit living spaces, with an innovative aesthetic, quality of manufacture and a finish worthy of a higher segment, with a new Natural mat finish for the year 2009. This is indeed a new aesthetic dimension, a new era for the “Spirit of Sound”.
So far, the Focal approach has consisted in introducing the maximum of technologies to offer the best performance possible starting with our entry-level products. If Chorus 800 V continues in this logic with novel technical solutions, the Chorus V design benefits from new, high-end aesthetic lines usually reserved for our upper segment products. With the conventional line of thinking, entry-level speakers are very limited by cost, which produces extremely simplified designs, and a dry, boring and mediocre appearance. Chorus V shakes up this tendency by having a high-end look with a strong, modern and fashionable aesthetic. To achieve this goal, we gave the design to the Parisian design house Pineau & Le Porcher, who had already created the curves of Profile 900 and Electra 1000 Be. The “V” symbol being the principle concept (shape of the cabinet, the “neckline” of the grille…) that is presently popular (automobile industry, high-tech…), Chorus 800 V stands apart with its very tight lines, totally divorced from the usual conservatism that has stagnated in this segment. It has true personality, with its own shape and expression taken directly from high-end, with a sophisticated form and above all exclusive materials. For the first time, these speakers employ a covering in acrylic, which the mirror luster gives a depth in the black finish never seen before on a speaker, not even with a true piano black lacquer. To create that which had never been attempted before, value-add to our speakers thanks to new, perfectly realized solutions; this is another facet of Focal innovation.
The construction and the finish are the other essential elements of the design. For Chorus 800 V, we didn’t wish to limit ourselves to notions of aesthetics and perceived quality, therefore we introduced novel technical solutions for the category. All the panels, in MDF, have a minimum thickness of 20mm, and 25mm on the sides. Considerable bracing, complicated pieces cut in MDF and integrated cable management optimize this rigidity to create a barrier which is particularly efficient against vibration. Finally, exclusive construction solutions allowed us to maintain nonparallel inner walls on these speakers to break up standing waves, which is a technological refinement until now impossible on generations of Focal speakers prior to Chorus 800 V. All these specific qualities work together to eliminate parasitic interactions in cabinet design, especially in the lower octaves. This is where all the technical points come together to demonstrate the innovative power and creativity of Focal: to clear the way with new processes and technologies to make the impossible come true!
- Type 3-way bass-reflex floorstanding loudspeaker
- Drivers 2 x 6 1/2" Polyglass woofers
- 6 1/2" Polyglass midrange
- 1" TNV Al/Mg inverted dome tweeter
- Frequency response (+/- 3dB) 45Hz - 28kHz
- Low frequency point (- 6dB) 37Hz
- Sensitivity (2.83V/1m) 91.5dB
- Nom. impedance 8 ohms
- Minimum impedance (@25°C) 2.9 ohms @ 118Hz
- Max. power handling. 220W
- Power RMS 150W
- Crossover frequency 300Hz / 3kHz
- Dimensions (HxWxD) 407/8"x111/8"x143/4"
- Net weight 56.8lbs
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