Focal has completely redesigned its flagship open-back headphone, Utopia. This a luxury audio device with a vertigo-inspiring price tag of $5,000. Let that settle in for a moment, but don’t make the mistake of dismissing these cans as an overpriced novelty designed to bleed cash from swells with deep pockets.
Utopia is the finest headphone I’ve ever heard, delivering audio quality and detail that compares favorably to the output of floor-standing loudspeakers that cost tens of thousands of dollars.
UNBOXING UTOPIA
The Focal Utopia comes in an upholstered black “leather-effect” (Focal’s term) box. Slide the top half from the bottom (and I do mean ; the inside of the box has a black felt lining), and you’ll encounter the black fabric case that holds your headphone and another upholstered box that holds the balanced headphone cable and a black folio that holds the instruction manual and a flyer for the amplifier and streamer (a component TechHive
