Once through the door, a vast room opens up with black walls covered with long light wooden battens.
Two very long leather sofas, also black, are placed one behind the other, facing two blue blocks, the size of huge fridges.
In the center, an imposing very dark metal box.
Welcome to Focal's auditorium, in La Talaudière, in a charmless industrial area in the suburbs of Saint-Étienne.
The centerpiece the size of a washing machine is the audio amplifier.
Both fridges are a pair of Grande Utopia speakers, considered by most audiophiles to be the best in the world.
Composed of five superimposed blocks equipped with a loudspeaker, the imposing columns tilt with the help of a crank so that the sound converges very exactly on the face of the listener.
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Sitting in the center of the first sofa, the music is on.
The eyes close almost naturally to dive into an acoustic universe like no other...
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