ENCEINTE COLONNE DEUX VOIES ET DEMIE
Le modèle Chora 816 est une enceinte colonne bass-reflex 2 voies et demie : son woofer et son haut-parleur medium/grave, équipés de la membrane Slatefiber fonctionnent en parfaite symbiose pour une restitution sonore tout en volupté et un impact du grave parfait. Le son prend toute sa dimension dans votre pièce d’écoute, avec un médium dynamique et une haute tenue en puissance. Un évent frontal est placé en bas de l’enceinte pour réduire les distorsions et, grâce à l’inclinaison du pied de l’enceinte, le Time Alignment permet une scène sonore centrée sur l’auditeur.
Chora 816 est particulièrement adaptée pour des écoutes en Home Cinéma et s’intègre idéalement dans des pièces jusqu'à 30 m2.
La suspension qui relie le dôme à son support utilise un matériau à mémoire de forme, le Poron. Cette suspension est directement dérivée du célèbre tweeter Utopia Béryllium et divise par trois la distorsion entre 2000 Hz et 3000 Hz, zone de forte sensibilité de l’oreille. La spatialisation et la très faible directivité du dôme inversé permettent de percevoir des aigus soyeux, quel que soit le lieu d’écoute dans la pièce.
La technologie Slatefiber, exclusive Focal, consiste à faire appel à des fibres de carbone recyclé non tissées, appliquées en sandwich entre deux couches de polymère thermoplastique. En quête de perfection, les ingénieurs Focal ont fait le choix d’utiliser les fibres de carbone non tissées et toutes orientées dans le même sens afin d’obtenir encore plus de rigidité et un meilleur amortissement.
Fabriquée en France à l’aide d’un outil industriel ultramoderne, cette membrane à l’effet « ardoise » permet d’obtenir plus d’amortissement et de rigidité, mais aussi de légèreté, les trois « essentiels » d’un bon haut-parleur.
La ligne Chora s’offre un design moderne, le tout élevé sur un pied incliné pour le Time Alignment qui permet d’obtenir une scène sonore centrée davantage sur l’auditeur. La couleur ardoise de la membrane Slatefiber apporte enfin une touche authentique et raffinée.
Trois finitions sont disponibles : Black, Light Wood et Dark Wood. Des couleurs tendance, qui s’intègrent dans les différents intérieurs et apportent une signature esthétique unique.
Beautiful speakers they're very bright sound quality is very detailed and open they feel your room very nicely I love those speakers
Excellent floorstanding loudspeakers.
My combination with the Musical Fidelity M5si works very well
The MF is a straight forward and clean amp without bass/treble adjustment so the match must be right.
The Chora 816 sound outstanding to me.
Exiting and entertaining,never dull or boring.
They can be a bit bright in the high frequencies sometimes(harsch)
The midrange is very good(vocals)
Enough bass and it’s tight.
Great design,,I like the tilted stands for better time alignment.
No bi-wiring posts at the back(useless option Imo)
The cabinets are braced internally at 2 places.
The side-walls stay “dead” even at very high volumes.
Front ported and a 2.5 way system,excellent.
The amp can push these loudspeakers to a crazy level,they are rated at 200 Watts.
It blew me away at 50%,any higher would give me hearing-damage
We were very fortunate in deciding to replace/upgrade some of our hi-fi just as Focal had discontinued and replaced most of the Chora range. This meant that the 816 speakers, which might otherwise have fallen outside our budget, actually fell well within it due to discounts.
I have waited to run them in for a week or so before writing this review, but in truth they sounded great within a few hours.
We auditioned a lot of speakers ranging from Focal’s own Aria 906’s (which were superb), to KEF LS50 Meta (good, but I think slightly over rated in reviews), Triangle Genese Trio (probably our second choice), Dali Oberon 5, some Q Acoustics, Wharfedale Evos and several more. It was a challenging choice, but we both loved the Chora 816’s from the minute that they started playing.
To our ears there is a lot of detail, a truly massive sound stage and great musicality. We both have eclectic tastes ranging from 1970/80’s rock and pop to progressive jazz, and all sounded truly amazing. I had read that Focal speakers can be a bit bright, but I felt that the Chora and Aria speakers were warm and not at all fatiguing to listen to. It really is a case of re-discovering our respective music collections with a fuller sound and so much more detail and nuances noticeable in the music. I am really blown away by how good these speakers are and how big the sound is, even at low volumes.
The 816’s also look fantastic and little details like the construction of the magnetic covers shout out quality. Having features like the tilted plinths for time delay correction (I forget the technical name for it) is a nice touch at this level. All told, we are really pleased with these speakers. It is also great to have a product that is not made in China and has MADE IN FRANCE on the boxes.
Great sweet sounding speakers with a lot of detail, Rich mids and tight base.
Coming from B&W speakers and these show them their place.
SUPER
Amazing set of towers, speechless.
Prompt friendly service from Marek
These speakers although the smallest floor standing speaker in the Focal range filled our 30sq mtr room Fantastic sound stage Clear in muddies sound considering the understated frequency response +-3db
Retired Television Operations career so exposed to extensive sound and video equipment
These 816’s suit our budget and the light wood finish with the cream front baffle with grey grills give the speakers their unique style
The slanted posture with the supplied speaker bases added to their appearance and sound
focused on the listeners
Exquisite
Purchased a pair of these in the dark wood, visually they are well built and very attractive, from a sound perspective they do not disappoint bought my first JMLab speakers 20 years ago and have been a fan ever since so I was confident buying these without actually hearing them. Using them for TV/movies and music, they provide rich full sound with crisp high end.
These floorstanders are elegant and modern, sound exciting at all volumes; not just when cranked up, and make all music fun to listen too. Even lower res streaming sounds good, but high res recordings sound amazing; like the singer is in the room. Classical music comes alive and leaps out at you, metal blasts with authority, but quiet songs are subtle and all music is emotionally involving. Old recordings simply take you back in time. My unit is a naim uniti star and it pairs very well with these Focal speakers, even in the relatively small living room I have. I recommend! Music is fun again.
Absolutely fantastic speakers, sound, finish, build, how do they do they it for the money!! These are my second set of Focals, brilliant.
It’s fantastic.