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FOCAL ULTIMA

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Preview A PASSPORT TO TRUE BASS ELECTRO MAGNET - EM Specification

Focal is proud to introduce the new Ultima kit,
 


a new reference of acoustics intended to revolutionize the Car Audio universe.

Developed and manufactured in Saint-Etienne in France, Ultima enjoys

the best of Focal technologies and expertise in the field of hi-fi speakers.

 


A concentrate of Grande Utopia EM and SM9

 

Ultima gathers all the outsized acoustic qualities of the Grande Utopia EM with

its woofer developed from the medium of the famous hi-fi speaker associated

with its Beryllium tweeter. At the same time, the kit is composed of two 20cm (8’’)

subwoofers designed for professional high-end monitors SM9.

 


No limit for passion

 

Focal’s challenge with Ultima was to reach the absolute sound by bringing

the high-fidelity sound of the legendary Grande Utopia and the fire power of

the SM9 into the automotive world. Unparalleled purity and acoustic efficiency,

excellence in your vehicle and an unmatched experience.

 

 

 

KEY POINTS:

 

  • Active system

 

  • Speaker developed from the best Focal loudspeakers (Grande Utopia EM & SM9)

 

  • Very good tonal balance and natural reproduction even of the "extreme" frequencies
  • (treble and low bass frequencies)

 

  • Natural frequencies connection between tweeter & woofer

 

  • Powerful subwoofer with high SPL (low load volume in ported enclosure)

 

  • The best of the technology for a very high-end hi-fi sound

 

 

 

Ultima kit is delivered in a Black Satin wood case including authenticity certificate, service manual, Focal tool CD for settings.

 

COMPOSITION OF THE KIT :

 

2 x Tweeters, 2 x Woofers, 2 x Subwoofers

 

 

ACCESSORIES :

  • Woofer aluminum ring

 

  • Fixing screw kit (woofer, subwoofer, tweeter)

 

  • Grilles for tweeter

 

  • Authenticity certificate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 A PASSPORT TO TRUE BASS

 

Power Flower™ technology is another strong identifier of the Focal range, and has been

for over 20 years. The story of this magnet technology deserves to be told. At the time,

Focal wanted to develop a high-performance, high-output woofer, requiring the use of

a very large-diameter ferrite. This Power Flower™ did not exist, and an alternative solutio

had to be found, capable of transmitting considerable energy to the motor.

 

The Power Flower magnet was born, and with it the use of several ferrite rings, stacked

and distributed around the central core. 20 years later we have retained this system born

then under duress. This technology has revealed another decisive advantage: not only

is the magnetic energy considerable, but above all the spacing between the ferrite blocks

allows free circulation of hot air, ensuring unrivalled thermal ventilation of the coil's outer

surface.

 

 

 
 
 
The inner side is cooled in a more conventional way by lateral grooves cut into the subwoofer's
 
bowl, with the air exiting through the ventilation shaft at the back of the pole piece. Cooled on
 
both sides, the coil's thermal saturation threshold is very low. As it heats up less, it is no longer
 
a limitation on power, as its behavior will be optimal both at power peaks with no dynamic
 
compression effect, and after prolonged listening, where its output will remain constant.
 
 
 
 
 
Another advantage of this technology is that the coil is decompressed, as it is totally open-back
 
to the outside world: distortion, linked to mechanical compression phenomena (the coil is no
 
longer slowed down by the small volume of compressed air in the air gap), is significantly reduced
 
at high or very high power levels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Magnetic energy

 

The performance of a loudspeaker is directly linked to the magnetic energy transmitted by the magnet

- a subject that Focal knows well, having invented original and technically advanced solutions such as

the Multiferrite magnet, which remains one of the brand's technological signatures. But permanent magnets

are power-limited, and in the context of a reference woofer, this is a real problem. Because a woofer should

combine at least two essential performances: high efficiency and the ability to go down in frequency.

To get down to low frequencies, you can play with the flexibility of the surround and spider, but above all you

need to increase the mass of the cone. If you increase the mass, the efficiency drops. And to compensate

for this drop, you need to increase the motor's power. This is where the limits of the permanent magnet come

into play, forcing a compromise between efficiency and resonant frequency.

 

 

 

Performance

 

Focal's only solution was to reconsider the very existence of the permanent magnet. We adopted

an electro-magnet for our Grande and Stella Utopia EM woofers. Thanks to the latest simulation software

and materials, this extreme solution, which goes back to the very origins of the loudspeaker, has been

optimized to deliver the desired strength, and is now the subject of a patent. The magnetic flux in the air gap

reaches 1.75 Tesla (0.9 for the woofer in the previous Grande Utopia Be, despite its Multiferrite magnet)

to deliver a force factor (the motor's true power) of 34 T.m. Objective achieved: efficiency for 1 W at 1 m

reaches 97 dB, while the resonance frequency drops to less than 24 Hz. That's the real performance.

 

 

 

 

Subwoofer 8″ (200mm)

 

Voice coil diameter 1-15/16″ (50mm)
Voice coil height 1-1/8″ (28mm)
Nominal Power 300W RMS
Maximum Power 600W
Sensitivity (2.83V/1m) 90.2dB
 
 
Woofer 6-1/2″ (165mm)

 

Voice coil diameter 1-9/16″ (40mm)
Voice coil height 0-2/3″ (17mm)
Nominal Power 120W RMS
Maximum Power 240W
Sensitivity (2.83V/1m) 90.5dB
 
 
Tweeter 2-15/16″ (75mm)

 

Voice coil diameter 0-13/16″ (20mm)
Voice coil height 0-1/16″ (1.4mm)
Nominal Power 50W RMS (with filtering)
Maximum Power 200W (with filtering)
Sensitivity (2.83V/1m) 93dB