Focal Clear MG Open-Back Reference Headphone

Product description

Clear Mg also boasts an elegant Chestnut & Mixed-Metals finish, combined with a comfortable leather headband and microfibre ear-pads, for even greater listening pleasure.

Open-back Headphones for the home

The gold standard in Focal open-back headphones, Clear Mg delivers outstanding sound performance and sophisticated, design-led features.

Made in France, these top of the range headphones incorporate exclusive Focal technologies, the result of cutting-edge research in acoustics and Focal savoir-faire. The speaker drivers are composed of a unique magnesium cone, a material that enables sharp, precise, impactful playback that results in stunningly realsound.

The elegant finish of Clear Mg is also unique with a Chestnut and Mixed-Metals design combined with the ultimate comfort of a leather headband and microfibre ear-pads. Supplied with two cables and a carrying case, they have everything you could need to enjoy incredible sound in a quiet environment.

Fully unleashed, the sound is incredibly pure, generating a wide range of emotions for even more listening pleasure.

Comfortable & ultimate openers

 

Innovation dedicated to sound

 

After four years of research and development, the engineers at Focal have designed a magnesium dome for the Clear Mg speaker drivers. Combined with an ‘M’-shaped dome, this material promotes even more lightness, rigidity and damping, the three success factors for a speaker driver. This innovation brings great dynamics and detail across the full sound spectrum while preserving a neutral and balanced signature. The ‘M’-shaped grille inside the ear-cup follows the curves of the speaker driver for even greater precision.

 

Premium materials

 

Solid aluminium, genuine leather, microfibre: the premium materials chosen for Clear Mg are a clear quality gauge but also provide unique elegance. Timeless and design-led, the honeycomb pattern on the external grille of the earcups plus the Chestnut and Mixed Metals finish are a thing of beauty. Quite simply, they are unique in their sophistication.

Key points

- Headband covered with leather and microfibre

-Honeycomb grille for even more open sound

- Solid aluminum yoke which moulds to face shape 

• High-fidelity open-back headphones for consumer use, made in France
• New dome material: Magnesium, for lightness and damping
• Remarkable sound performance: perfect dynamics, detail and balance
• Comfortable and ergonomic
• Low impedance ( 55 Ohms ) to achieve very good performance with a portable player

Accessories included

• Rigid woven carrying case in colours to match the headphone
• 2 low resistivity 24 AWG OFC copper cables:
      - 1 x 3.9 ft ( 1.2 meter ) mini-jack cable with 1/4” ( 6.35 mm ) jack adapter
      - 1 x 9.8 ft ( 3 meter ) 4-pin XLR cable
• Optional: a stand allowing you to display the Clear Mg Headphones indoor

Shipping dimensions & weight: 12" x 9" x 12" , 7.2 lbs

The EISA panel, which includes judges from 60 international specialist multimedia magazines and websites from across 29 countries, have named Focal’s hi-fi Clear Mg headphones as the ‘Best Headphones of the Year’ and Naim's all-in-one amplifier Uniti Atom Headphone Edition as the ‘Best Solution for Headphones of the Year’.

 

"Focal’s Clear headphones were already a superb performer, but with the arrival of the Mg version the company has raised the bar even further. Changes include a new, pure magnesium driver ( hence the name ), improvements to resonance control within the open-back housings, and in the alignment of those drivers relative to the user’s ear. The result is a headphone sound that retains all the openness of the original, but now offers better speed, clarity and precision. It reveals even more detail in the music and creates a palpably realistic sense of an acoustic spread before you, not enclosed within your head."

- EISA Jury 2021