Legacy Audio Focus HD

Tracking a musical waveform precisely is no simple task for a loudspeaker. Diaphragms must reverse directions more 10,000 times per second, while traveling a total distance as much as two feet per driver in that same second.

The new FOCUS HD incorporates the world's most efficient magnetic structure (patented AURA technology) in the dual aluminum cone woofers. By achieving more magnetic uniformity in the gap, displacements up to remain tightly controlled and linear. Accompanied by Legacy's proprietary stepped voltage crossover, the woofers are immune to DC offset and are turbocharged in the first musical octave.

The 7 mid-bass drivers are Legacy's exclusive silver/graphite technology. Threads of silver are woven into a carbon fiber diaphragm to distribute bending modes across the spectrum, and then backed with a layer of ultra-light Rohacell. This remarkable driver exhibits a smooth response over seven octaves, and an unmatched sensitivity of 95 dB (providing 8 times the intensity of a typical high performance 6.5 driver). Beneath the custom phase plug is an additional neodymium wafer. Reverting conventional magnetic losses, the wafer provides a uniform BL product down the entire length of the pole piece.

The unprecedented dynamics of the FOCUS are topped off with two new neo-ribbon drivers. The mid-ribbon features a push pull neodymium magnetic structure with an ultra low mass diaphragm. This ribbon is specifically voiced to provide a seamless integration between the cones and the tweeter above.

Articulating the top end of the spectrum is a pleated ribbon with a custom machined acoustic chamber, a carefully shaped lens to precisely control dispersion, and a neodymium motor structure. Development of this driver was essential to the new FOCUS, as no other ribbon previously available could match the dynamic requirements of high sensitivity, high output, and transient performance. Cymbals will shimmer without a trace of the edginess of hard domes.

...the Legacy FOCUS is the finest value that I have ever encountered in high-end audio. - Paul Bolin, Stereophile

Sonically, the Focus was like moving from DVD to Blu-Ray...Focus HD can create a recorded environment, and the principle players in it, as none others I have heard in its price class. - Douglas Schroeder, Dagogo