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Active studio monitor
The Focal Shape 40 is an active monitoring loudspeaker designed by the famous French brand Focal.
Focal Shape 40 Highlights
- Compact design: Perfect for small studios or restricted spaces, this close-mount monitor is designed for optimal use in close proximity.
- Neutral sound: Faithful, accurate sound reproduction, covering the entire frequency range, ideal for mixing.
- Aluminum/magnesium inverted-dome tweeter: Offers remarkable clarity in the high frequencies (treble).
- Flax woofer diaphragm: An innovative material for improved bass and midrange response.
- Dual Class AB amplification: Optimizes power and sound quality for each driver.
- Advanced settings: Adjustable for perfect adaptation to your listening space.
Focal Shape 40 features
Aluminum/Magnesium M Inverted-Dome Tweeter
The Focal Shape 40's inverted-dome M tweeter is designed to offer optimized sound dispersion, resulting in an extended sweet spot. This unique aluminum and magnesium material ensures exceptional clarity and definition of high frequencies (treble), reducing distortion and delivering detailed listening.
Flax fiber woofer
The Flax membrane used for the 4" (10 cm) woofer is made from flax fibers. This material is known for its lightness and rigidity, enabling a highly linear frequency response. The woofer provides effective midrange and bass coverage, delivering accurate, dynamic low-frequency reproduction without distortion.
Dual Class AB amplification
The Shape 40 features dual Class AB amplification, with 25W for the tweeter and 25W for the woofer. This amplification system guarantees sufficient sound power for each speaker, while maintaining optimum audio quality, even at high volumes.
Advanced settings
To adapt to any listening environment, the Focal Shape 40 offers several acoustic settings. You can adjust bass, midrange and high frequencies for optimum frequency response according to the acoustic characteristics of your room.
Connectivity
The speaker features a balanced XLR input and an unbalanced RCA input, offering flexible connectivity to suit different studio setups. These connectivity options make this product compatible with most professional studio equipment.
Explore New Possibilities with the Focal Shape 40
The Focal Shape 40 is an ideal monitoring solution for small spaces and home studios. Thanks to its sonic neutrality and numerous adjustment features, it delivers faithful sound reproduction across the entire frequency range, essential for mixing and mastering. Its compact design and versatility make it perfect for those looking for a high-quality monitoring loudspeaker without compromising on space. What's more, Focal's manufacturing technology guarantees exceptional quality and durability.
Expert and user reviews
Sound experts and users of the Focal Shape 40 agree on its outstanding performance. Critics praise the precision of the sound reproduction, particularly in the high frequencies thanks to the inverted dome tweeter. Users particularly appreciate the clarity and definition of the sound, even in difficult acoustic environments.
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Technical sheet
- Monitor color Brown
- Monitor conditioning One piece
- Product type
- 2-way monitor
- Speakers
- Woofer: 4" Flax membrane
- Tweeter: 1" Aluminium-Magnesium M-profile
- Frequency response (+/- 3dB)
- 60 Hz - 35 kHz
- Maximum SPL (peak@1m)
- 102 dB
- Inputs
- XLR: balanced 10 kOhms
- RCA: unbalanced 10 kOhms with compensated sensitivity
- High-frequency amplifier
- 25 W, class AB
- Midrange and low-frequency amplifier
- 25 W, class AB
- Visualization and control
- HPF, LF Shelv, LMF EQ, HF Shelv
- Depth
- 20 cm
- Height
- 25.7 cm
- Width
- 16.1 cm
- Weight
- 5 kg
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