<h1>Focal Shape 50 Active Nearfield Studio Monitor (Single)</h1>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">2-way Active Studio Monitor with 5" Flax Cone Woofer and M-shaped Aluminum-magnesium Inverted-dome Tweeter</span><br/><br/>
The Focal Shape 50 active nearfield studio monitor is a compact yet versatile monitoring loudspeaker. This monitor can be used from 30″ away (80cm), and it has very extended low end frequency response (50Hz) for its size thanks in part to its dual passive radiator design. Thanks to this design and to the numerous settings, this monitor is ideal for rooms measuring less than 130ft2 (12m2).<br/><br/>
Shape 50 monitors provide remarkable acoustic transparency along with a wide and extremely precise stereo image. The bass register is articulated and controlled. The lower mid-range and mid-range benefit from extreme neutrality, and without any masking effects, making equalization of these essential registers much easier. Finally, the new tweeter is what’s at the source of the very high definition. It efficiently reveals any hissing, and it’s also very precise in the very high end.
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<h3>Focal Shape 50 Key Features:</h3>
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	<li>Tweeter with very low directivity for a flexible listening position                                                                                                                       </li>
	<li>Designed without a port, but with a double passive radiator, allowing it to be placed near a wall.                                                                                        </li>
	<li>Numerous settings for optimal integration                                                                                                                                                 </li>
	<li>Accurate control, even in the very high end                                                                                                                                               </li>
	<li>Flax sandwich cone: controlled and articulated bass, natural and detailed lower mid-range and upper mid-range registers.                                                                  </li>
	<li>Mounting mechanisms present on the back and underneath the loudspeaker: for installing on a table stand, a microphone stand, the ceiling or a wall (Mounting accessories not supplied).   </li>
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<h3>'M'-shaped aluminum/magnesium inverted dome tweeter</h3>
Aluminum has the advantage of having very high rigidity, whereas the combination of addition of magnesium increases the damping of the dome. At the same time, the 'M' shape of the inverted dome has two major advantages. Its directivity is even less that of the inverted dome tweeter, allowing for more flexibility in terms of listening position. Mechanically speaking, the 'M' shape gives the dome much more rigidity, while reducing distortion even more. The Poron® suspension provides a more linear frequency response curve below 6kHz, improving crossover with the woofer. The magnetic component has also been optimized thanks to a voice coil with a Kapton® frame which significantly reduces the Foucault current, and consequently, distortion. Finally, the horn housing the tweeter has been designed to provide equal horizontal and vertical directivity.
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<h3>5" Flax sandwich cone</h3>
Developing speaker driver cone technologies is part of Focal’s core expertise. The Flax sandwich cones used for the woofers on Shape loudspeakers are composed of two materials: glass fibres and flax fibres. A layer of flax fibres is sandwiched between two layers of glass fibres. Glass fibre cones were also used on the 'W' composite sandwich cone of the SM6 and SM9 series, and are revered for their high rigidity considering their light weight.
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<h3>Dual Passive Radiator</h3>
The dual passive radiator on Shape studio monitors solves a common issue encountered with nearfield monitors: to combine a compact design with extended low end frequency response.
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Traditionally with dual passive radiators, rocking modes can occur depending on the frequency and the volume. In order to compensate for this phenomenon, two U-shaped surrounds positioned opposite each other join the passive disk to the basket, ensuring perfect symmetry during excursion and incursion. Finally, the very low tuning frequency allows the monitors to be placed very close to a wall.
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<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 (A Good Day to Die Hard, Life of Pi, Prometheus, This Means War, We Bought a Zoo, Pearl Jam Twenty, 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). 
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<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. “Focal: The Spirit of Sound.”
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<h3>The Focal Shape 50 combines several patented Focal technologies into a compact nearfield monitor with incredible performance. For more information, call or chat with an RSPE representative today. 
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