Does anyone know if Focal is still making and selling loudspeaker drivers (NOT car audio...) and if so what site or dealer?
Thanks!
Thanks!
You used to be able to get a catalogue of their components, but no more. I think they have stopped selling hifi drivers to the public.
There is a small company near me:
Osborn Loudspeakers - The World's Best Hifi Speakers
...who seem to still be using Focal (non car) drivers. So it looks like small manufacturers can still get them.
There is a small company near me:
Osborn Loudspeakers - The World's Best Hifi Speakers
...who seem to still be using Focal (non car) drivers. So it looks like small manufacturers can still get them.
It does look like they have ceased selling to the DIY/Enthusiast crowd. Bummer. Just about everything I have is "Focal Inside". Thanks again 🙂
I was more specifically looking for the tweeters TC120 line...just couldn't find anything but car audio so I got to wondering if they were even selling anything but car audio and their own finished speakers (JM Labs).
The Focal Tioxid's are today seriously outclassed by a number of tweets, but most won't will give you that kind of colorful extra spaciousness. If you want something that sounds similar either try a true ribbon, or something else with a big resonance at the top of the top octave.
Vifa NE25VTS-04 1" Silk Dome Tweeter
Vifa NE25VTS-04 1" Silk Dome Tweeter
There is absolutely nothing wrong with 4 ohm units, other than woofers presenting a "challenge" to be succesfully voiced in accordance with audiophile standards. Next year I am expected to work out a 3 way Focal based project; 11W; 5W, and Be tw.
What does that mean? What's a speaker's impedance's impact on the »voicing«? Frankly, I suspect audiophoolish babble here 🙄.
Btw, the Focal TC120 inverse dome tweeter is/was a very nice unit. It sounds well in the Focal Onyx pair that I've built when my elder son was a baby, about 35 years ago. Now this son owns and runs them to his very pleasure 😀.
Best regards!
Btw, the Focal TC120 inverse dome tweeter is/was a very nice unit. It sounds well in the Focal Onyx pair that I've built when my elder son was a baby, about 35 years ago. Now this son owns and runs them to his very pleasure 😀.
Best regards!
Lucky you ... my old 811 kit with the same tweeter foamed surround but kevlar cone have dried and hardened (approximatly same yo than yours)... well given to my Bro some years ago !
My experience with the tioxid (TC90 if I remember correctly) was not very good. Sound was of damped metal cone but nothing spectacular but the surrounds (looked like some form of cloth) failed within 2 years. Basically first one and then the second de-glued themselves at some points.