FOCAL Sopra N°2

The Sopra N°2 is a three-way floor standing loudspeaker that fills the gap between the flagship Focal Utopias and long-selling Electras. The MDF cabinet is divided into separate compartments that host Focal’s proprietary drivers. Two 7” (18cm) woofers take care of the bass part (the cones are from “W” material that is a sandwich of a sheet of foam covered in glass fiber). The bass is supported by down-firing port – the gap between the speaker and the floor is ensured by spiked legs that are attached to a glass plinth (it is a French speaker so it needs to be chic). The midrange driver is of a similar construction plus it introduces what Focal calls Tuned Mass Damper, a surround ring that stabilizes the cone.
Upper and lower compartments are attached to each other by means of a wedge that hosts an inverted dome beryllium tweeter. The Sopra N°2’s cabinets are concave to put a listener in the focus of virtual beams from all drivers. Focal’s engineers have come up with an idea of the rear of the tweeter loaded by a tapered horn (that is the horn opens from the tweeter to the rear of the cabinet where the metallic perforated grille is fixed). The horn is damped by foam inside so that the rear firing energy is absorbed. Unlike the magnetically attached grilles of the woofers and the midrange the front grille of the Be tweeter is permanent. The Sopra N°2 is not bi-wireable. Dimensions (HxWxD) are 1190 x 358 x 540mm, 55kg. See attached images for colour finish options.