Published 12/4/08
Compact Monitoring Systems
Focal are a French company who have been making monitors for over 20 years. They’re incredibly well respected in the hi-fi world, and car audio buffs often look to them for top-notch in-car audio. But it’s only in the last decade that they’ve turned to the pro audio industry, and until now they've had their sights aimed at the top end of the market.
The latest products to be announced by Focal are the CMS50 and the CMS65 (CMS stands for Compact Monitoring System), which are both two-way, bi-amped, nearfield monitors.
They’re aimed at the home- and project-studio users, and are priced accordingly, but are made to the same rigorous standards as Focal’s other products. The smaller of the two, the CMS50, features a five-inch woofer, while the CMS65 had a 6.5-inch driver, and both sport one of Focal’s signature aluminium/magnesium inverted dome tweeter.
Like almost all other nearfield monitors, the CMS monitors have a range of controls to tweak the freqency response of the monitor. On their rear panels, there are high- and low-frequency shelving filters, a high-pass filter, and a ‘desktop notch’ function, which helps to supress troublesome low-mids (centred at 180Hz) when the monitors are used on a flat surface, such as a desk.
Both CMS models feature die-cast aluminium enclosures that have been acoustically treated to remove the unwanted resonance that Focal say is “frequently encountered on that type of cabinet”.
They’re available this month, through SCV in the UK.
SCV London +44 (0)208 418 1470
www.scvlondon.co.uk
www.focalprofessional.com
Focal are a French company who have been making monitors for over 20 years. They’re incredibly well respected in the hi-fi world, and car audio buffs often look to them for top-notch in-car audio. But it’s only in the last decade that they’ve turned to the pro audio industry, and until now they've had their sights aimed at the top end of the market. The latest products to be announced by Focal are the CMS50 and the CMS65 (CMS stands for Compact Monitoring System), which are both two-way, bi-amped, nearfield monitors.
They’re aimed at the home- and project-studio users, and are priced accordingly, but are made to the same rigorous standards as Focal’s other products. The smaller of the two, the CMS50, features a five-inch woofer, while the CMS65 had a 6.5-inch driver, and both sport one of Focal’s signature aluminium/magnesium inverted dome tweeter.
Like almost all other nearfield monitors, the CMS monitors have a range of controls to tweak the freqency response of the monitor. On their rear panels, there are high- and low-frequency shelving filters, a high-pass filter, and a ‘desktop notch’ function, which helps to supress troublesome low-mids (centred at 180Hz) when the monitors are used on a flat surface, such as a desk.
Both CMS models feature die-cast aluminium enclosures that have been acoustically treated to remove the unwanted resonance that Focal say is “frequently encountered on that type of cabinet”.
They’re available this month, through SCV in the UK.
SCV London +44 (0)208 418 1470
www.scvlondon.co.uk
www.focalprofessional.com
