If there’s one thing I noticed during airport layovers and traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday, it’s the style of headphones that are trending. Today, whether you’re a professional musician, a gamer, or you deeply care about the audio quality of your Spotify playlist in order to tune out the cafe noise around you, many are turning to Focal. On Cyber Monday, we’re here to narrow down your gift ideas for the music and gamer aficionados in your family or friends group.
Focal, also known as the audio industry icon duo Focal & Naim (Focal Naim America), has three incredible headphone series:
- Lensys Professional: Designed for producers, sound engineers, musicians, beatmakers, and composers.
- Clear Mg Professional: Designed for sound engineers and producers.
- Listen Professional (Listen Pro): Not only for the professional, but also great for gamers and those who often take their work to the cafe or travel often.
We tested the Listen Pro, priced at $299 (Check for Cyber Monday deals – subject to change). The first thing you notice is the comfort level of the headphones’ cushion.
- The design offers an even weight distribution on the head, avoiding pronounced pressure points. I tend to get headaches easily with headphones on for a long amount of time, but the Listen Pro could remain on for the entirety of a cross-country flight.
- The earcups’ structured black coating offers excellent resistance to shocks and scratches.
- The thermosensitive, high-resilience memory foam provides excellent coupling to different face shapes.
Includes a carrying case and 16.5 feet (5m) coiled asymmetric cable (1/8″ – 3,5mm TRS jack) + 4,5 feet (1.4m) straight asymmetric cable (1/8″ – 3.5mm TRS jack).
Listening to an acoustic album with the Listen Pro headphones is like experiencing it live.
If you’re looking for something suited for the musician or sound engineer, Lensys Pro is their latest release. They were developed to be a reliable, versatile tool for any work environment – whether in a recording studio or on the road. They provide balanced tonal neutrality and serve as an immersive companion for binaural audio applications within a three-dimensional environment (e.g. Dolby® Atmos™). Pricing is normally $699.
- Their robust design incorporates sturdy materials including the aluminum headband.
- The carrying case ensures the headphones are well-protected.
- The package includes two cables, enhancing portability and versatility.
Tech Features:
- Focal engineers chose a 1-5/8″ (40mm) aluminum/magnesium electrodynamic driver with an ‘M’-shaped dome, a unique innovation offering incredibly precise sound reproduction.
- Aluminum is used to increase the driver’s rigidity and greatly reduce distortion, while magnesium helps to ensure excellent damping.
- Driver delivers deep bass, accurate high frequencies, and crystal-clear midrange — all carefully tuned for the audio professional.
- The ‘M’ shaped dome achieves exceptional rigidity creating a linear frequency response and improved sound dispersion.
- The drivers are angled toward the ears within the earcups to enhance stereo imaging, and the optimized acoustic load at the back of the drivers delivers excellent low-end extension.
- Designed for lengthy production sessions, Lensys Pro are lightweight, at 10.8oz (306g), and feature memory foam earpads, providing a comfortable fit and excellent sound isolation from external noise.
Shop at: https://www.focal.com/
Browse Focal Naim America’s Focal Pro website: https://www.thefocalproexperience.com/
