Focal Sopra N1 Speakers-Imperial Red Limited Edition (Full Complete Set)-Used Pair

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Brand new condition Focal Sopra N1 Speakers-Made in France-Imperial Red Limited Edition (Full Complete Set)

A very good and mint condition Focal Sopra N1 & Sopra original stands (sold separately for RM12k).

All in complete factory packaging and kept as a 2^nd set (extra pair maintained inside box thus the sale).

Brand new condition without any single scratch, blemishes or any other defect, issues. Even the stands are brand new looking (super solid material, heavy and with some sections made of thick glass for great design and look, comes with spikes, Focal made spike shoes, and all complete accessories, manuals, etc).

This is a limited edition in imperial red colour, very limited units produced and no longer in production anymore. The speakers are so well maintained with covers when not in use resulting in great look and colour till now.

Handcrafted in France.

Specs

Type: Two-way, bass-reflex
Driver complement: One 1″ inverted dome tweeter, one 6 ½” bass/midrange
Frequency response: 45Hz–40kHz (+/-3dB)
Sensitivity: 89dB
Recommended amplifier power: 25–150 watts
Nominal impedance: 8 ohms
Dimensions: 16.75″ x 11″ x 15 ½”
Weight: 19kg each side (without stand)

The Sopra N°1 compact loudspeaker easily adapts to spaces of over 50m². With its high sensitivity and excellent power handling, it is a bookshelf speaker with ultimate performance, close to that of the Utopia range of excellence. The extremely low distortion level makes for incredibly pure listening, with the advanced definition and spectacular spatialisation typical of bookshelf speakers.

It is a very pleasant sounding speaker with a catching appearance. A very easy to drive speaker pair, and positioning the Sopra No1s is surprisingly easy as well.

The Sopra N°1's sound is open and expressive. The sound pours out of the drivers with ease, rather than being pushed out. Despite that the beryllium tweeter is very revealing, the N1s do not try to pierce the listener with laser like highs - their highs are very natural, clean and clear. Though I know more beryllium speakers, very often they become to be fatiguing for ears. This is not the case here: with the Sopra N°1 I would end late at night and would be looking for the next morning's session. They are actually very friendly speakers to live with.

http://www.audiodrom.net/cs/component/element/detail/29-stand-mount-monitors/376-focal-sopra-n1

There’s something to be said for a high-end loudspeaker manufacturer actually making its own drivers. The number of companies that do this is relatively small, though many try to obfuscate the matter by declaring that their woofers and tweeters are made to their exacting “specifications” by outside sources. In fact, many fine loudspeakers are produced by this latter paradigm. But having complete control over driver manufacture in-house can facilitate efforts to optimally integrate the performance of transducers, crossover, and enclosure. Since very close to its beginnings in 1979, Focal (at the time known as JMLab—Jacques Mahul started the company and remains at the helm) has produced both raw drivers and complete speaker systems. For 25 years, Mahul sold his drivers to other marques. But especially with the development of an automotive speaker line, the demand became too great and now the French company keeps all of its drivers for its own products.

The Sopra speakers—there are two currently, the $8999 Sopra No1 and the $13,999 Sopra No2—occupy a position in the Focal product range between the Electra line and the take-no-prisoners Utopia series. The Sopra No1 is the top half of a Sopra No2 turned upside down and mounted on a dedicated stand. A mini-monitor? It sure doesn’t perform like any other mini-monitor I’ve heard, and if you’re thinking of employing a subwoofer along with these loudspeakers, maybe yes—but maybe no.

The key features of the beryllium tweeter and sandwich cone have been in place for years and, to cite a Focal technical paper, “the only way forward was to work more closely on the driver suspension.” Using computer-modeling methods to investigate the effect of adding mass to a driver’s suspension (a technique that’s been used to assess automobile suspensions and anti-seismic systems for tall buildings), Focal developed its TMD (Tuned Harmonic Damper) suspension, configured as a pair of circular rings that oscillate to neutralize the resonance frequency of the driver’s surround. The result, says Focal, is a greater than 50 percent reduction in distortion around the critical area of 2000Hz, which results in improved imaging, delineation, and timbral accuracy. Sopra speakers also take advantage of some “trickle-down” technology from the massive EM drivers found in Utopia models, and other refinements of the EM circuit that Focal sees as a work-in-progress, calling it the Neutral Inductance Concept, or NIC.

Helping a friend to let go his pair, please Whats-app 012-5885 270 for more info and details, photos, etc.

Condition: 9/10 (full complete set, brand new condition without any noticeable scratch, marks, wear and tear signs, the special red colour finishing is still like just out of the box)

Price: RM33,800 (including Focal’s original designer type super solid stands made just for this N1 model) still negotiable for serious buyers.

The current retail price for this pair (without stands) is around RM50k, just the stands are more than RM12k now.

Prefer face to face deal if possible, testing and audition preferred once the sales price is confirmed.

Can deliver for free by hand around Penang, Ipoh, KL or Kedah areas.

Thank you and feel free to contact me for any questions ya.

by anandfm Tue Dec 31, 2024 9:06 am

by anandfm Sat Jan 11, 2025 4:57 pm

Focal Sopra N1 Speakers-Imperial Red Limited Edition (Full Complete Set)-Used Pair

Focal Sopra N1 Speakers-Imperial Red Limited Edition (Full Complete Set)-Used Pair

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