The determining component of the Utopia Be series is the beryllium inverted dome tweeter. Beryllium tweeters are shared technology from the Grande Utopia Be home speaker system, which retails around $130,000 in Australia. This technological breakthrough makes use of the physical characteristics of the rare metal beryllium in order to produce a tweeter that is far ahead of its competition in linearity, bandwidth, dynamics and overall musicality.

Beryllium is an extremely light and rigid metal. Low mass and high rigidity are the ideal characteristics for tweeter cones.

The problems associated with using Be have been found insurmountable by all other manufacturers and the mainstream manufacturers have traditionally used titanium, aluminium and similar metals for tweeter cones in recent years. The Focal-JM Lab research and development team found a way to form tweeter cones from solid Beryllium, and this was a major breakthrough. It is a painstaking and expensive process using a metal which is many times more expensive than gold, but the results speak for themselves.

These tweeters play through to 40 kHz, which imparts detail and airiness to the music. Utopia Be offers a truly exceptional rendering of the complete spectrum of all music, with depth in details, richness in texture, and live dynamics.

The Utopia Be line is three speaker kits and three subwoofer options :

• The N°7 is a 3-way kit designed around a very innovative ultra compact midrange, a tiny three-inch speaker called 3 W2.  The unique characteristic of this 3" mid is that it plays from 200 Hz upwards. Most three-way kits cross to the midrange speaker at 400 to 600 Hz which means that there is a crossover point in the middle of the frequencies used by most human voices, which causes some strange effects, for example a singers voice switches between speakers halfway through a note. If you can mount this Focal 3" and the Be tweeters above dashboard level, you will achieve staging and imaging unmatched by any other brand of speakers. This kit will require expert and customised installation in most cars but is a breakthrough in what is achievable in car audio.

• The N°6 is at the heart of this new offering, with the TBe tweeter this time associated to a all new 6.5” (16.5cm) midbass, the 6 W2, which is not afraid to get down near sub territory with stunning authority. This kit lends itself to cars which have room for a 6" driver and tweeter, which is the majority of modern cars.

• The N°5 combines the TBe tweeter and an all-new 5” (13cm) midbass, the 5 W2. This compact design will adapt well to many modern cars with minimal speaker mounting space.

These three kits come with the Crossblock stereo filter, which controls and harmonizes the driver units. Thanks to no less than 4480 combinations of electrical adjustments, the Crossblock will allow the user to reveal the full extent of the Utopia Be performance. These systems are perfect for serious competitors and passionate audiophiles who like to control and adjust every aspect of the systems performance.