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The First High-End Closed-Back Headphones from Focal
Elegia's promise is to provide you with the ultimate listening experience, without the fear of a noisy environment disrupting this moment of pleasure. For these high-performance headphones, Focal brought together the best of its technologies, skillfully designed, developed, and assembled in its workshops in France.
Elegia is an audiophile circumaural closed-back pair of headphones from Focal. The ergonomic design makes them incredibly comfortable and offers excellent sound isolation, making these headphones the ideal solution for long listening sessions. Continuing its headphone development program, the Focal R&D team has introduced several new innovations, all with incredible audio performance in mind.
The full-range 'M'-shape aluminum/magnesium dome speaker driver provides a very high frequency response, which is the basis for Elegia’s supremely dynamic sound. In addition, the frameless voice coil, which is lightweight yet incredibly stiff, reproduces the minutest details that adds to the convincing all-round performance. With its incredible tonal balance combined with long-term comfort, the Elegia is a key reference in the high-end closed-back headphones sector.
"Headphones That Serious Audiophiles Will Enjoy"
"Focal has done a fabulous job of engineering a pair of audiophile closed-back headphones that can really rock with portable devices," notes Mark Sparrow in his Forbes magazine, review for October 8, 2018. "The oversized ear pads and excellent acoustic isolation are ideal for listening in noisier environments and they are equally good for a long listening session in a quiet room at home, connected to a conventional hi-fi. All in all, Focal has produced a pair of headphones that serious audiophiles will enjoy using on the move for listening without compromise."
Award-Winning Performance
"The Focal Elegia headphones are an incredible pair of cans for those that want a pair of closed-back headphones at under $1,000. It’s hard not to compare them to other Focal headphones — but the fact is that in this price range, these headphones really stand out.," reports Christian De Looper at headphonereview.com.
"Because of the fact that these headphones offer so much and sound so great, we’re awarding them the Headphone Review Gold Medal."
"A Spacious, Upfront Sound"
"The Focal Elegia headphones have a lot going for them and are worth any premium headphone buyer’s serious consideration. They look stunning, are sublimely comfortable, isolate outside noise impressively, and deliver a spacious, upfront sound," observes England's What Hi-Fi? magazine, March 5, 2019.
"Ideal for home and on-the-go listening, their versatility helps set them apart at this price."
"Some of the Best Midrange Sound We've Ever Heard
"The Focal Elegias deliver some of the best midrange sound we've ever heard, making elements like vocals shine," notes themasterswitch.com, February 2019.
"The design of the Elegias is excellent, with a terrific industrial look. The headphones feel like they are priced in the right range, and there's a genuine sense of getting your money's worth with these."
Experience Music Everywhere
With Elear, Clear and Utopia, Focal made a grand, and not unnoticed, entrance into the high-end open- back headphones market. But that was only the beginning of the story.
Integrating speaker drivers into closed-back headphones, without making any concessions on the reproduction of the lowest frequencies: that is the new chapter in the Focal story that the engineers have just finished writing by creating Elegia. Focal invites audiophiles to make a date with stunning sound whenever and wherever they want, to dive into an intimate sound bubble, without worrying that a noisy environment is going to interfere with a listening moment of pure pleasure.
With Elegia, Focal has brought together the best of its technologies, skillfully designed, developed and assembled in its workshops in France. These unprecedented headphones incorporate a new generation of exclusive full-range speaker drivers capable of operating in a small inner environment while ensuring exceptional dynamics and the most precise sound reproduction. Whether it’s the motor, the frameless copper voice coil, the dedicated surround, or the "M"-shape dome, these speaker drivers represent innovation devoted to sound purity.
"10/10 for Detail"
"Nothing beats the Focal Elegia when it comes to pure resolution, especially at its reduced price.," reports r/headphones contributor James Fiorucci, jamesfiorucci.wordpress.com, October 10, 2023.
"Focal are famous for their m-shaped drivers, which provide a superb amount of punch and slam to the dynamics of their headphones. This does wonders for detail retrieval; it feels as though every note has its own stage. You can not only hear when each sound begins and ends, you can feel it. From what I’ve tried, only Focals have this unique characteristic. 10/10 for detail."
"Something of a Revelation"
"Focal’s Elegia are something of a revelation. They not only sound excellent, falling somewhere between the Massdrop-modified Elex and the Clear tonally as well as technically, and with an unusually open-sounding delivery, but they’re the least expensive, lightest, easiest to drive headphones in Focal’s 'high-end' line-up," notes headphones.com, November 19, 2020.
Designed for Portable Audio Players
Designed for use with portable audio players, Elegia delivers excellent performance. Focal’s forty years of expertise has also resulted in specific work on the vents to ensure that zero resonance disturbs the listening experience. As such, Elegia’s soundproofing is excellent, helped along by the earpads. The realism and naturalness of the diffused sound is striking from the very first seconds of listening, whether that’s at home or outdoors, using the jack adapter and the cable with jack connector provided with the headphones.
Focal doesn’t just create high-performance acoustic solutions. The brand goes beyond. It creates designer objects and champions a way of life. The choice of noble materials, such as leather, microfiber, solid aluminum, etc., gives Elegia style, sophistication and timelessness.
Absolute comfort is yet another asset on the list, too. With its well-mastered geometry, the headband molds perfectly to the head, providing optimal grip for on-the-go use, and the memory foam microfiber earpads are soft and comfortable on the ears. And because Focal oversees the quality of every detail, a carefully finished, perfectly-sized case is also supplied. Its thermoformed construction lets you store, protect, and carry Elegia wherever you go.
