Focal Announces Alpha — Affordable Powered Studio Monitors Series

The renowned French speaker designers have done it: Focal released an extremely accessible line of reference monitors aimed at those who accomplish their mixing and recording in the home studio.

The Alpha line certainly takes on a different build than the Focal monitors we are used to. Still, Focal leaves their aural identity on these monitors with popular features passed down from higher end monitors.

The new Focal ‘Alpha’ powered monitors, Alpha 80, Alpha 65, and Alpha 50

Available in July, the Focal Alpha monitors come in three sizes and are priced as so: $349ea. MSRP for Alpha 50 – 5” woofer, $449ea. MSRP for Alpha 65 – 6.5” woofer, and $599ea. MSRP for Alpha 80 – 8” woofer. Here are more details from Focal on what Alpha is bringing to the home studio:

Alpha studio monitors are specifically designed for music creation.

Take your compositions to a whole new level!

Thanks to Focal’s exclusive technologies, its expertise in terms of speaker drivers and to the mechanical design of Alpha studio monitors, optimum integration is guaranteed. The environments for music production are very diverse, they are not optimised acoustically, or have only been done so insufficiently, and the listening distances vary greatly. Whether for confined spaces, rooms with poor acoustic qualities or for styles of music, which require neutrality, dynamics and high SPL, Alpha studio monitors are the solution for you.

Right from the first stages of R&D, the Alpha line was designed as a solution to these problems whilst focusing on one objective in particular: improving the quality of music production by giving the user better control over the audio spectrum.

Technology at the service of music creation

This is reflected in the choice of technologies used, such as the inverted dome tweeter, that provide a very linear treble, reveal the slightest imperfections of equalisation even from a short distance away and also prevent auditory fatigue ; the Polyglass cone woofer, which gives excellent damping qualities, ensuring flawless neutrality over the entire bass/high‑midrange frequency spectrum, and a remarkable transparency to the midrange frequencies  ; and the unique bass‑reflex design with large double front ports, which improves acoustical integration even in confined spaces nor installed near a front wall.

Finally each Alpha studio monitor is equipped with two class AB amplifiers. The high‑current amplifiers enable complete control of the dynamics of the audio signal. This also allows for listening at high volumes without distortion.

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