Focal’s new flagship Diva Alta Utopia is an audiophile’s dream – and a tight budget’s nightmare

Focal has unveiled its new flagship wireless active loudspeaker system, Diva Alta Utopia.

Billing the latest unit as its “most advanced wireless, active and connected loudspeaker system to date”, Focal worked alongside British company Naim Audio to combine flagship acoustic engineering, integrated amplification and high-res wireless connectivity in a sleek package typical for the French luxury audio brand.

Directly inspired by Focal’s iconic Grande Utopia speaker – one of the most prestigious loudspeaker systems in the world retailing at well into six figures – the Diva Alta Utopia adopts the same principles, including four-way architecture, Focus Time Management, a W cone and fine-tuned filtering.

The unit boasts Class AB amplification delivering over 600W of power per speaker, distributed over four dedicated amplifiers to guarantee a precisely controlled supply for each frequency range.

Meanwhile, the Diva Alta Utopia also packs a powerful bass-midrange driver and four W-cone woofers for an “exceptional” bass response. It also features Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology for lossless speaker-to-speaker communication beyond CD quality, with support for up to 192 kHz/24-bit playback.

It also features Focal’s in-house designed Focus Time Management technology, which sees speaker drivers arranged in an arc formation directed to a “sweet spot” listening point.

“It’s mission? To obtain a perfectly consistent and realistic sound image: all sounds reach the ears at the same time. The result? Ultra-precise soundstage and striking realism,” the brand says.

With Diva Alta Utopia, Focal also unveils its new patented PRISM technology, which combines a multi-material substrate with an advanced micro-structuring process, resulting in a “perfect balance between lightness, damping and rigidity”.

The speaker system also supports seamless high-resolution streaming, with compatibility with Spotify Connect, TIDAL Connect, Qobuz Connect, AirPlay 2, Google Cast, Bluetooth 5.3 and UPnP, offering a “single, elegant platform for music, film and connected living”.

In addition, Focal and Naim have designed an app that lets you control the Diva Alta Utopia, as well as other Focal products. Within the app, users can access their music easily, as well as their favourite streaming platforms and radio stations – all in high-resolution.

And true to form, the Diva Alta Utopia is a looker, too, with stylish floating side panels and choice of premium felt or hand-finished lacquered finishes.

These are some of the best loudspeakers in the biz, mind, so they don’t come cheap. Felt-finished options come at £165,000 per pair, while high-gloss options come at £175,000 per pair.

Learn more at Focal.

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