Focal Sopra Center

Focal Sopra Center: 3-way centre channel

The centre speaker of the Sopra series, for home cinema systems with the same tone across the whole front: voices, music and effects stay consistent with what is on screen. A three-way bass reflex design whose tweeter is an inverted dome in pure beryllium, with an 8 cm W midrange and two 16.5 cm W woofers.

The wooden cabinet is built by Focal's cabinet-makers in Bourbon-Lancy, Burgundy.

The Sopra series brings many solutions from the Utopia line into a smaller size. The tweeter is a 27 mm inverted dome in pure beryllium; to give its best it would need an almost infinite volume behind it, and the IHL system (Infinite Horn Loading) simulates one while leaving the whole cabinet volume to the bass. The cones are W sandwich designs. The midrange has TMD suspension and the NIC magnetic circuit (Neutral Inductance Circuit), which keeps the magnetic field stable and distortion low.

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It completes a system with the front Sopra loudspeakers, the Surround BE and the SW 1000 BE subwoofer; the optional stand is 61 cm tall.

• Low frequency point (-6 dB): 50 Hz
• Sensitivity 91 dB, nominal impedance 8 ohms (minimum 4.1)
• Suggested amplification: 40 - 200 W
• 23.5 cm high, 60.9 cm wide, 35 cm deep
• Finishes: gloss black and white lacquer