Focal's Utopia series of loudspeakers is the French audio brand's most high-end range of passive speakers, with price tags usually in the high six figures. This luxurious, esoteric range now has a new addition: the Focal Diva Utopia. The Diva Utopia is Focal's first foray into the world of active wireless speakers, joining a category dominated by similar speaker systems from KEF, such as the Award-winning , , as well as strong contenders from , and now .
The Diva, however, has a considerably higher price tag than these speaker systems available on the market. The Focal Diva Utopia cost £29,999 / $39,999 / AU$60,000 per pair – a significant amount! The other headline is that the Focal Diva's electronics are all powered by sister brand Naim Audio. The Diva are floorstanding models with a three-way design with a bass reflex system.
The speakers feature Focal's signature 27mm inverted dome beryllium tweeter, a 16.5cm sandwich midrange driver and four 16.5cm woofers that combine to deliver powerful sound that should fill rooms as big as 80sqm, the brand claims.
There are three dedicated A/B amplifiers for each driver section (250W for bass, 75W each for tweeter and midrange) adding up to 400W per speaker – that's 800 watts of total power output from the full system. According to the press release, "Naim Audio has designed the electronics especially to guarantee the faithful reproduction of every musical nuance." We were told by a Focal representative during an early preview i.