Focal

Focal brought the Utopia headphones to Crutchfield for a listening event — they sounded spacious, effortless, and incrediby nuanced. Focal dipped their toes in the headphone pool a few years back and earned rave reviews. Now these world-renowned speaker experts have decided it's time to dive headfirst into the deep end. The Focal Utopia open-back headphones employ the same spare-no-expense approach to design, engineering, and execution that made Utopia such a prestigious name in the worlds of home and car speakers . Focal stopped by Crutchfield HQ with a sample of the Focal Utopias (and their sibling, the Elear headphones ). We were wowed by the strikingly realistic sound. I can't throw enough superlatives at them. These headphones were clear and detailed in ways I've never heard. Home A/V editor Jim Richardson pointed out that “Limelight” by Rush — a song we've all heard countless times — has so much more going on in the low-end than we ever realized. You could pick out each instrument like the band was p...