<h1>Focal Twin6 Be Professional Studio Monitor (Single)</h1>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Award-winning, dual-woofer solution for recording, mixing and mastering</span><br/><br/>
Winner of <em>FutureMusic’s</em> Platinum Award, the Twin6 Be is Focal Professional’s best selling and most versatile monitor of the SM6 series (which includes the Focal <a href="http://www.rspeaudio.com/Focal_Solo6_Be_Studio_Monitor_Speakers_p/fcl-solo6-be.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Solo6 Be</a> and <a href="http://www.rspeaudio.com/Focal_Sub6_Studio_Subwoofer_Speaker_p/fcl-sub6.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Sub6</a>. If you want a monitor that represents clear and present bass, but don’t have room or desire to use a subwoofer, the Focal Twin6 Be is your one-stop solution for tracking, mixing, or mastering. Image precision, highly accurate treble definition, and midrange neutrality are the hallmark of Focal’s Twin6 Be, the reference standard for mixing and mastering engineers who require absolute transparency.<br/><br/>
<h3>Focal Twin6 Be Key Features: </h3>
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	<li>3-way, 400W studio monitor</li>
	<li>Dual woofer design provides deep, extended bass response without masking midrange frequencies</li>
	<li>Stable tonal balance at high SPL</li>
	<li>Lightning-fast, transparent high-frequency reproduction</li>
	<li>Ultra wide frequency range (40Hz-40kHz)</li>
	<li>Adjustable tweeter and woofer contour controls (-3dB - +6dB)</li>
	<li>Input sensitivity selection switch for –4dBu or –10dBV operation</li>
	<li>2x150W rms bass/mid-range (BASH® technology)</li>
	<li>100W rms HF (AB class)</li>
	<li>Power on/off </li>
	<li>Magnetically shielded</li>
	<li>Electronically balanced XLR input</li>
	<li>Voltage selector</li>
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The design of the Focal Twin6 Be allows high SPL while simultaneously offering stable tonal balance. The Twin6 Be’s dual-woofer design provides a full bass response without “wandering” into the midrange. To accomplish this, one of its  6.5" woofers works in the wider midrange/mid-bass register, while the other woofer works in a narrow band from 40Hz to 150Hz. This creates a bass register that preserves signal integrity and dynamics without masking effects in the midrange, thus maintaining neutrality and transparency. Additional control of the bass register is accomplished by fine-tuning the rear-panel bass-contour potentiometer in order to obtain a perfect mirror configuration with its mate. The Focal Twin6 Be can be installed vertically or horizontally as control-room space requirements dictate. Plus you can select via rear-panel switch, which of the two woofers will handle bass or midrange. 
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<h3>Focal Solo6 Be Unique Features:</h3>
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	<li>Inverted dome tweeter</li>
	<li>Beryllium cone (tweeter)</li>
	<li>Focal "W" composite sandwich cone speaker</li>
	<li>Custom-design BASH® technology amplification</li>
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<h3>What makes the Focal Twin6 Be sound so good?</h3>
Though housed in an extremely attractive cabinet, it’s what’s inside the Focal Solo6 Be that truly counts. Focal Professional’s unceasing exploration of cutting edge technologies and new manufacturing techniques have yielded unprecedented advances in audio reproduction and sound quality. It is precisely these technologies that are responsible for the stunningly accurate sound reproduction of the Focal Twin6 Be and its smaller sibling, the 2-way  
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The design goal of the Focal Twin6 Be is to allow high SPL while simultaneously offering stable tonal balance. To accomplish this, he Twin6 Be features high-quality, high-power custom amplification (see below) and a dual-woofer design that gives you full bass response without “wandering” into the midrange. This is achieved by having one of its 6.5" woofers work in the wider midrange/mid-bass register, while the other owns the narrow LF band from 40Hz to 150Hz. This creates a bass register that preserves signal integrity and dynamics without masking effects in the midrange, thus maintaining neutrality and transparency. <br/><br/>
Additional control of the bass register is accomplished by fine-tuning the rear-panel bass-contour potentiometer of each monitor in order to obtain a perfect mirror configuration. The Focal Twin6 Be can be installed vertically or horizontally, as control-room space requirements may dictate. Plus you can select which of the two woofers will handle bass or midrange via a rear-panel switch.  <br/><br/>
<h3>Focal Professional’s innovative technology for superior sound</h3>
It’s been said that if you’re not manufacturing your own LF and HF drivers, then you’re simply in the packing industry, not speaker manufacture. Focal Professional employs several proprietary and patented technologies to ensure world-class performance.  
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<h3>Inverted dome tweeter</h3>
Two of the most difficult things to hear in a mix are compression and reverb tails. Focal’s innovative inverted dome tweeter offers unparalleled dynamics, enabling very precise control of compression, while its outstanding spatial precision facilitates accurate assessment of reverb tails and stereo imaging.  
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It accomplishes this by mechanical coupling of voice coil and dome. The voice coil is fixed mid-height on the dome and uniformly moves the entire surface of the cone. The positive dome is only joined at its edge for a flexible surface. The inverted dome directly radiates into the air with maximum efficiency, which results in an extremely precise soundstage. The dome’s response curve is far more linear than that of any positive dome, thus providing better dispersion and very low directivity.<br/><br/>
<h3>Beryllium cone </h3>
Long, fatigue-free mixing or mastering sessions require very low distortion in the high frequencies. To accomplish this, two years of Focal research produced the world’s first pure beryllium, inverted-dome tweeter. Capable of covering five full octaves (1kHz to 40kHz) due to its incredible rigidity, Beryllium appears to be the ultimate material for a tweeter dome.
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Why did Focal strive for a frequency response up to 40kHz if the human ear can only hear up to 20kHz? Extensive research has shown that if you extend frequency response well beyond the range of human hearing, phase shift is significantly reduced in the audible spectrum. This reduced phase shift greatly improves the reproduction of high-frequency information, which yields greater realism and localization in-band. Instruments maintain their spatial integrity yet blend better harmonically.   <br/><br/>
Since the linearity of a speaker’s response curve is mainly a function of three often opposing parameters: lightness, rigidity, and damping, it follows that a material that combines these three parameters in a positive manner must be found—and find it Focal did. Only one material does the trick: beryllium. Beryllium is seven times more rigid than titanium or aluminum, both of which are well known for their rigidity. However, beryllium offers sound-wave propagation that’s three times faster than titanium, and two-and-one-half times faster than aluminum. This capacity to reproduce high frequencies with unmatched speed and transparency yields an unprecedented price/performance ratio. Additionally, Focal’s TB872 beryllium tweeter delivers outstanding dynamic response, thanks to its amazing magnetic field strength (2.1 teslas). <br/><br/>
This decisive advance in tweeter technology has put Focal Professional monitors in the enviable position of dominating the field of new high-resolution audio formats.<br/><br/>
<h3>Focal “W” composite sandwich cone</h3>
Like the beryllium tweeter, the “W” composite sandwich cone optimizes the speaker’s frequency response curve, thanks to total control of the three aforementioned contradictory characteristics: lightness, rigidity, and damping. Focal has been developing composite sandwich technology for more than 15 years, and finally perfected it with the “W” (Glass/Foam/Glass) composite sandwich cone. The “W” cone provides precision optimization of its frequency response by fine-tuning mass, rigidity, and damping characteristic. The balance between these three fundamental parameters forms the basis of Focal speakers’ outstanding sound quality and neutrality.
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<h3>Custom-designed amplification  </h3>
Designing an amplifier to be integrated inside a speaker cabinet requires a very different set of rules than those for a traditional amp. Unfortunately, speaker-size and cooling issues are, more often than not, at odds with the quality and power requirements for a sonically transparent speaker. For a best-of-both-worlds solution, Focal engineers used BASH® (Bridged Amplifier Switching Hybrid) amplification technology to develop the bass/mid-range amplification circuit for all SM6-series professional monitors. The resulting amplifier combines the best of class AB style circuits (for exceptional quality) with a high-power class D-type yield. BASH offers extreme amounts of power without the wasted heat and energy of traditional amplifier designs, which is crucial when housing a 150W RMS circuit in such a small space.
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For handling the high end, a pure class AB circuit is more than sufficient to power the less-demanding high-frequency tweeter, which yields extremely wide bandwidth and exceptional sonic accuracy. <br/><br/>
<h3>Who’s using Focal Professional Monitors:</h3>
Numerous professionals are using Focal monitors for music production, video post, and mastering. Among them are RSPE friends including, musician-producer Dweezil Zappa; renowned Hollywood sound-recording mixer Ron Bartlett (
<em>A Good Day to Die Hard, Life of Pi, Prometheus, This Means War, We Bought a Zoo, Pearl Jam Twenty,</em> and many more), and premier Hollywood mixer, Gary Lux (The Jacksons, Frank Sinatra, Rob Thomas, Janet Jackson, Usher, Sting, Norah Jones, Keith Urban, and Rod Stewart). Dweezil, Ron, and Gary share their views on Focal monitors: <a href="http://www.rspeaudio.com/Owner_Experiences_Speakers_a/306.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">VIDEOS</a> <br/><br/>
<h3>About Focal Professional</h3>
Since 1979, Focal-JMlab has been a world leader in high-end acoustic loudspeakers. While maintaining production in France for over 30 years, Focal has never deviated from its core values of innovation, tradition, and designs reflecting “luxury "à la française.” Focal strives to be the world's best in everything they create, and their award-winning lines of professional studio monitors reflect that philosophy. 
<br/>“Focal: the Spirit of Sound.”<br/><br/>
<h3>Once you have mixed on a Focal Twin6 Be, you may discover that your quest for the ultimate near-/midfield monitor has ended. Order a Twin6 Be from RSPE and start a new journey of musical discovery.</h3>