It was awesome, the fact that the speaker manufacturing process still has a lot of hand work deserves more respect and love.

I could watch focal speaker cabinet b roll all day. Too cool!

Love Focal. Former Elear owner, currently Clear OG and Utopia 2020. The Utopia's are so good, I haven't listened to the Clear's since the Utopia's arrived. I also have the Sopra Center and Sopra No1s are on order. This was such a cool video to show all the care that are put into these pieces of art.

This was such an awesome video to watch! I thoroughly enjoy all of the reviews and analytical content you guys do, but seeing a change of pace like this with bits of your team going and just enjoying themselves was super cool to see!

thank you for sharing this visit at Focal

This makes me feel even better about my Focal Aria speakers

Makes me appreciate my Focal Headphones even more 😍

This was fascinating to see. Thank you for the content here and sharing your experience!

This was fantastic! Time to do one for each of the headphones manufacturers we all love! More please! Thank you guys!

I'm envious!! What a phenomenal opportunity for you and the team, and thanks for sharing!

Great video ! Excellent craftsmanship from Focal ! Bravo !

What an awesome video! I'd love to see more factory tours.

Great video! Always wonderful to see more about audio manufacturing.

awesome video thanks for taking such time to produce it!

It's always amazing to see the level of care that goes into making Focal products. I remember watching a Focal tour about a year ago that got me really interested in the brand and convinced myself I would own their headphones. I now own the Elegia's and appreciate them every day

That was very insightful, love these sort of videos. If you ever get the opportunity to do more, please do so!

Great video. Well presented and clearly narrated. It makes me even more proud to say I own a gorgeous pair of 936s. Love them!

Ho man, what a ride!!! Thanks to share this amazing experience! Focal is a reference of excellence, innovation and passion!..Just looking the test between the titanium, aluminum and beryllium convinced me that quality means everything to Focal!!!!

Fantastic. Thank you‚ wonderful video. I appreciate my Focal Aria 926 speakers even more now‚ and of course my elex and elegia. Great to see the passion and enthusiasm from the people from Focal‚ and from you‚ great job :)

My first video from your channel. Really enjoyed it. What a great introduction. Now subbed 👍🏻

Wow, thanks for preparing this doc. Really nice, very very interesting.

Thank you for this, The HEADPHONE Show ❤

Thank you so much! that was really amazing! That really makes me appreciate and love my Utopia headphones that much more though I can't imagine loving them more! They are really amazing! I can also see why and appreciate why they cost so much. Well worth the money in my opinion! I wish I had the room for and could afford the Grand Utopia speakers. They are breathtaking to look out! By the way, what a stunning location! What a great life it must be to work at Focal!

Beautiful story. I like that there is still so much made by hand with lots of locals involved

Great stuff Andrew.

good to see human beings doing things human beings used to do... glad to know robots have not replaced yet all human creativity and craftsmanship! thanks for sharing your experience!

Happy focal aria 926 owner here. Stood out in a blind test among a lot of other similarly priced speakers. But felt just that tiny bit more sophisticated and balanced compared to the rest. Build quality and aesthetics were top as well.

Wow great to see this :D my first highend headphone for me will be the Focal Clear Mg in a few days :D super excited.

Quality content I luv u guys

I watched this while wearing my Focal Radiance! Over the next couple of years I will be building my home stereo system. Looking at the Aria lineup with dolby units. I am smitten with their sound. This is exciting stuff :)

Oh man this was good. I would love to take a tour of their factory.

I love Focal Speakers, they are the best

Man this is always mind blowing to see, how these products come into being. It also highlight a bit about pricing of these devices, it shows there's no way you can make this stuff without charging quite a bit for it.

Always nice to be reminded of how much is done by hand, because of it's complexity to automate. The Sennheiser factory in Germany also does most of the assembly by hand. Really makes you appreciate your headphones a bit more.

Great vid peeps

Wow man, awesome! I am a proud Focal speakers owner since 2011

I'd put money on the Utopia Tournaire still having headband creaking noises even at the $120,000 price tag LOL. They just really love cheap plastic internals for their one and only headband. Dupont dry film lube takes care of it.

Wow Andrew, so happy for you.... You totally deserve it you have given Focal a huge amount of positive exposure which they deserve, so cool man. I know it might be against your mantra but Focal should seriously consider giving you a good deal on a Utopia... Seeing them do so much by hand too was a revelation for me and definitely increased the value of Focal products in my eyes, knowing most aren't made in some other country like China and are just imported ready to snap-in. Seeing the driver being blown on and moving and the explanation about the lightness of the materials also gave me great insight as to why they are so low impedance, where traditionally I would say the dampening inherent with high impedance is better, so now I understand the technology better and why low impedance isn't a limiting factor but actually a requirement due to the manufacturing precision, fascinating. Keep it up man, I am a fan for life and hope the trend of manufacturers and reviewers interacting in these non-review-focused but very transparent ways continues!

Watching this video on my Focal Alpha 65s!!! Crazy experience!!!

This video convinced me to buy a Utopia more than any review I saw on youtube. The best video from the entire channel.

Amazing thanks for sharing. Is this tour available to the public at all , it's a dream for my partner to see where his speakers and headphones are made. We are going to France next year and the Focal factory is high on his wish list.

lovely!

My Clear OG’s are my favorite, and most expensive cans I own. I rarely listen to it these says because I prefer iems for convenience and comfort reasons, but they’re my preferred headphones when I feel like reaching for some cans (over Sundaras, Zeus, and HD560s).

awesome!

I love my old school utopias I have in my car. Just waiting for a car worthy of my No7s. I'd love to hear some of the home audio. There's just something about how they bring out different aspects of songs and music in general.

I saw something very interesting behind you, HiFiman EF1000 isn't it? Can't wait to see your review about it to powered Susvara.

Very interesting.

Thank You guys, Thank You KZfaq and Thank You Internet.

Thanks for documenting this unique experience. Wouldn't be the same as being there though :(

And back to you Steve

So when do we get the video on the elopia combo you daily drive?

Hey Andrew thanks for the video. Off topic a bit - what mic do you use and is your room sound treated?

At about 3:52 I can clearly hear the Verve Bitter sweet symphony, this was heard on my Elegias with Dekoni Stellia pads.

Great video! When you were in the speaker demo room, what volume level did they use when they played the music and was it just right for your ears? Or would you have liked it louder or quieter?

Well Done good sir :)

I bought a jeep wrangler , previous owner installed 4 focal speakers . I was about to Install something else , but no before doing some research. Surprised.

what cables are you running with those Focal Elear?

I got strong Ferris Bueller talking about the rare Ferrari vibes when you were talking about the Grand Utopia demo. "It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up."

Can you ask them, why Focal Elex model fails in so many cases? Almost no single pair without issues exist - either one driver stops working after few months of normal usage (after buying new pair or second-hand, does not matter) or there is obvious channel imbalance between L and R, much louder than 0.5db? Btw, even 0.5db is a lot...8:40

If you want to see a much longer, more in depth tour, check out the Produce Like a Pro channel.

So how many wine caves did you visit and what was your favourite wine?

While you were there, could please you tell them to fix their damn Elex from driver failures that happens to a large percentage of their Elex's. Even if it means they increase their price to Drop a bit. Otherwise, they're great headphones that punch above their weight.

You've seen Focal's QC? They have that?

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Did you ask why so many elex fail?

That's what I want to see ans ear in the iems. The driver. The capacitors and resistors for the crossovers and the most important, the box resonance that gives that closed acoustic timbre echo that we ear in focal speakers. Hate when an iem has a driver and a tube that bring the sound to the nozzle , when companies like 64 audio and fir audio bring the chamber like a real speaker to give that hi fidelity sound.

Not sure how this video popped up in my thread but Saint Etienne is my birth city, and FIY Etienne in english means Steven or Stephane. The people from Saint Etienne are called "Les Stephanois". Allez a bientot.

Did you ask them why users report such a very high incidence of single channel failure compared to less expensive brands & what they are doing to address that issue?

Wonder if focal has sorted out the quality control issues by now

I would bet $100 that Resolve will soon be taking a year sabbatical to do an internship at Focal. That would be a good life 🙂

omelette du fromage

Gonna save up to own one of these hand crafted headphones. Glad there are still such company like these who havent offshored to China to mass produce junks. Repect Focal!

What kind of pads do you have on those Elegias?

We we baguette

HUE JAZZ IS A SPY!!!😶

do a hifiman tour

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La talaudiere ! C'est chez moi

Focal builds some beautiful stuff, but that metallic timbre in the high mids are an issue for my ears.

0.5 db difference is ok ? hmm thats a lot

Altos vendedores humo

hue jazz well spoken canadian

Hopefully the products you saw were not faulty.

Sure, you must loose yourself... to find yourself... :)

however, the quality of the front panel materials on the chora's 806 is terrible! Bubbles everywhere, laminate is peeling off the base. FRENCH QUALITY!

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1st for once

If I were to buy a $120k headphone I'd make sure it was ugly as shit. That way 100% of the cost goes towards sound and build quality lol.

bullshit nothing what is handmade is precise my brother ! that's why is so special ! 8:00 want to tell me robot is less precise in this job than human ? :D how much glue she put there 1.087grams and next time the same amount ? haha the same is with the coils if them must pair them its mean they are not made precise this is super simple element why they must pair them ? this is not transistor where they make 1000 of them in a minute :/

Horrible customer service at Focal