Focal Sopra Center High-End Center Loudspeaker (Each)

Brand: Focal | SKU: SopraCenterBlackLacquer | UPC: 3544058695148

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$4,999
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Color: High Gloss Black Front and Body

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Reveal the invisible - 3-way surround loudspeaker
Sopra Center allows you to extend the Sopra experience to your Home Cinema. Sopra Center uses all the design aspects of Sopra loudspeakers in order to optimize integration into your home. The center loudspeaker is an essential component of home cinema systems because its role goes beyond reproducing just the dialogue. The mid-range must provide precision and coherence between the visuals and the soundstage. If the center loudspeaker reproduces the majority of voices in the centre of the image, its spectrum is much broader and also includes music, sound effects and other sounds.

The Sopra Center loudspeaker is the ideal complement for the other loudspeakers in the Sopra line: Sopra N 1 bookshelf loudspeakers and Sopra N 2 or Sopra N 3 floorstanding loudspeakers. Each model in the line offers high performance and consistency in terms of output, rendering and scale. Each speaker driver benefits from the same technologies: W cones and pure Beryllium inverted dome tweeters. The soundstage therefore, is perfectly dispersed: the sound emanating from either side of the image is reproduced without variation of the timbre.
Like all products in the Sopra line, Sopra Center is available in the Black Lacquer finish.

The center loudspeaker is composed of:

3" (8cm) 'W' cone midrange
2 x 61/2" (16.5cm) 'W' cone woofers
11/16" (27mm) pure Beryllium IAL tweeter.

KEY POINTS

Compact high-performance loudspeaker
Speaker drivers developed and manufactured in France by Focal
Compatible with all models in the Sopra line

Optimized acoustic performance 'W' CONE
The 'W' composite sandwich cone permits total optimization of the frequency response curve, thanks to the total control of three key parameters: lightness, rigidity and damping. These unique characteristics of lightness and rigidity provide control of the signal transmission speed inside the material.

Beryllium tweeter UNEQUALLED PURITY
Due to its incredible rigidity, Beryllium represents the ultimate material for a tweeter dome. After two years of research and development, Focal produced a world first: a pure Beryllium inverted dome, able to cover more than five octaves. You will improve the perception of transients and other micro details.

The pure Beryllium inverted dome tweeter offers a perfectly linear frequency response and extremely precise and detailed treble.

As well, the linearity of the speaker s response curve is mainly a function of three opposite parameters: lightness, rigidity and damping.

Brand Focal
Model Sopra Center
Speaker Type 3-Way Speaker
Enclosure Type Bass Reflex
Tweeter Type Beryllium inverted Dome
Tweeter Size (inches) 1.06
Midrange Size (inches) 3
Woofer W Sandwich Cone
Woofer Size (inches) 6.5
Bi-Amp Terminal No
Power Range (watts) 40-200
Frequency Response (Hz) 55-40,000
Speaker Sensitivity (dB) 91
Speaker Impedance (ohms) 8
Available Finishes Carrara White, Black Lacquer, Electric Orange, Macassar Ebony
Cabinet Finish Aluminum/MDF/Lacquer, Aluminum/MDF/Wood Veneer
Weight (lbs) 42
Dimensions (H x W x D in inches) 9.25" x 23.97" x 13.78"
Warranty 5 Years

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Brand
Focal
Focal
Bowers & Wilkins
Dynaudio
Speaker Type
3-Way Speaker
2-Way Speaker
3-Way Speaker
2.5-Way Speaker
Tweeter Type
Beryllium inverted Dome
Hard-Dome
Diamond Dome
Esotar 2i Soft-Dome
Tweeter Size (Inches)
1.06
1.1
1
1.125
Midrange Size (Inches)
3
5
Woofer Size (Inches)
6.5
6.5
6.5
7
Power Range (Watts)
40-200
40-200
50-200
60-300
Frequency Response (Hz)
55-40,000
55-44,000
33-35,000
35-23,000
Speaker Sensitivity (dB)
91
92
89
87
Speaker Impedance (ohms)
8
8
8
4
Dimensions (HxWxD)
9.25" x 23.97" x 13.78"
9 11/16" x 22 1/8" x 15 1/2"
11.4" x 28.1" x 14.5"
8 1/2" x 29 1/2" x 15 5/8"
Weight (lbs)
42
39.6
55.4
52.9
Cabinet Type
Bass Reflex
Rear Ported
Rear Ported
Rear Ported
Bass Reflex
Bass Reflex
Rear Ported
Rear Ported
Rear Ported
Carrara White, Black Lacquer, Electric Orange, Macassar Ebony
Carrara White, Black Lacquer, Electric Orange, Macassar Ebony
High Gloss Black Cabinet/Deep Black Front, High Gloss Black Cabinet/Matte Black Front, High Gloss Walnut Cabinet/Matte Black Front, High Gloss White Cabinet/Matte White Front, High Gloss Walnut Cabinet/Ivory Matte Front
Gloss Black, White
High Gloss Black, Walnut Wood, Nordic Silver
Internal Powered Subwoofer
No
Cabinet Finish
Aluminum/MDF/Lacquer, Aluminum/MDF/Wood Veneer
Multi-ply/Polymer/Lacquer
Plywood with Aluminum Bracing, Lacquer Finish
MDF/Lacquer, MDF/Wood Veneer
BI-Amp Terminal
No
No
Yes
Warranty
5 Years
5 Years
5 Years
8 Years
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