Today at us on listening to earphones - "plugs" from company Focal. The company is French, with a rich history, but the most interesting is the first headphones of this type for the brand, since in the field of individual audio Focal specializes in overhead versions. The more interesting .
It all started, though not with headphones and back in 1979. It was then that Focal founder Jacques Maul set about creating dynamic heads for acoustic systems. Even then, the acoustic components of Focal became widely known among people who monitor the quality of the music being listened to and are ready to spend considerable amounts on the components of the multimedia center.
Focal Sphear - headset - "gag" for everyday wearing with an eye to the audience, familiar with good sound and sending complete sets to where they belong (well, to relatives they give, for example) .
Rarely now, you will find a solution with a button for answering a call and controlling a headset located on a separate module. Here it is taken out of the microphone block far enough, and no rattling with fast walking, for example, you will not notice. And the cable itself does not suffer from the microphone effect, so contacts with clothes will not affect the reproduced sound.
To control playback, you will need to remember the classic Morseanka: one press to start and pause playback, two to rewind, three to rewind. For a similar type of navigation on playback, everyone has long been accustomed to.
Sphear equipment was also interesting. If a hard cover with a zipper is already familiar in quite expensive and high-quality headphones, then here are two sets of attachments - silicone and foam - it's already very interesting.
And not even because they are not superfluous and are lost. Just for maximum noise isolation, the foam version of the nozzles looks very interesting, and for those who want to have more understanding of the surrounding reality in the urban environment, the usual silicone ones will do.
Soundproofing still remain at a very decent level thanks to the design of headphones: the interior space of each liner is clearly zoned and does not allow both your music to be in the surrounding space, and the city noise to penetrate into your personal music world.
Over sound in the company worked in two directions at once: both active mobile users were not forgotten, and those who quietly enjoy music on the way remembered. The first gave a fair, but not excessive amount of low frequencies, but not to the detriment of the middle and especially the upper ones. At the same time, the midrange frequencies - in accordance with the traditional concept for Spirit of Sound - are reproduced as clearly and clearly as possible.
Fortunately, on the more expensive and interesting headphones I've heard dozens of favorite compositions in various formats, so in confirmation of the company's statements I can say only the following. In the absence of genre preferences, Focal Sphear has an absolutely clear desire to separate the frequency spectrum, which causes both a sense of volume and a pronounced sound of each instrument.
Accordingly, the classic and modern orchestral recordings of this Focal product will be played "with a bang," a good remaster like the relatively recent Pink Floyd will not cause any censure, but not very high-quality records of the nineties and not very high-quality digitizations of the mid-20th century will clearly betray the curvature of hands sound engineer, flaws in the vocal of the fashionable performers and low level of equipment.
With everyday wearing of Focal Sphear discomfort is not delivered, the L-shaped (even, perhaps, r-shaped) plug does not interfere in the pocket, the length of the wire is enough for quiet interaction with the player or smartphone.
In the kit we also found an adapter to the audio jack used in passenger aircraft. The case is useful, the headphones are still quite isolated from the outside world, so that during the flights this accessory will come in handy.
, probably, someone will seem rustic in appearance, despite the abundance of metal and very high-quality performance. But I liked this sound of the French brand, and the headset skills complement the already interesting picture. Yes, there are more expensive models and much more interesting, but for the in-channel headphones, the quality of the transferred music is at a very high level. Listen to them is worth, and it is with your favorite smartphone - that's what they are intended for.
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