Focal Pack Dome Flax 2.0 white

The compact Dôme speaker was designed to enhance your home cinema setup and let you rediscover true musical sound. These satellite speakers from Focal combine French acoustic expertise with innovative technology, thanks to a natural flax membrane. With a diameter of just 14 cm, it remains discreet and preserves your living space, while delivering audio performance worthy of the renowned manufacturer from Saint-Étienne.

The white Dôme Flax 2.0 Pack stands out thanks to its exclusive Flax membrane, the result of over five years of research and development. This innovative technology puts French flax at the heart of modern acoustics, offering an exceptional balance of lightness, rigidity, and natural damping.

Flax Technology: The Innovation of Natural Flax Serving Acoustics

After more than five years of research and development, Focal unveiled in 2013 an exclusive membrane made of flax (Flax, in English). Patented, this Flax cone is a sandwich made of very high-quality French flax fiber placed between two thin sheets of fiberglass. This approach showcases Focal’s ingenuity in material selection.

Flax fiber is twice as light as fiberglass, as it is a hollow fiber. This unique characteristic gives it exceptional mechanical properties: it has very low elasticity, making it ideal for increasing the flexural rigidity of a sandwich structure. The audible result is a particularly natural reproduction in the midrange, with an absence of coloration that preserves the authenticity of the musical signal.

This fiber, produced in northern France, is placed between two thin sheets of fiberglass. This type of non-woven membrane, twice as light as fiberglass and stiffer, is easier to industrialize. Focal thus controls the entire production chain, from the selection of French flax to final assembly in its workshops.

Acoustic Architecture and Technical Design

The Dôme Flax 2.0 adopts a two-way configuration in a remarkably compact format. The Focal Dôme Flax compact speaker is a sealed spherical model, which ensures excellent transient response and strong attenuation of cabinet resonances. This sealed design optimizes bass frequency control and ensures exemplary temporal coherence.

The 10 cm mid-bass driver fully benefits from Flax technology. Flax fiber offers excellent internal damping, comparable to that of fiberglass, Kevlar, or aluminum. This natural property eliminates unwanted resonances that could color the sound, which is especially important in a speaker of this compact size.

The inverted dome tweeter in aluminum-magnesium alloy follows Focal’s technical standards. Aluminum increases the dome’s rigidity and greatly reduces distortion, while the addition of magnesium provides excellent damping. This unique solution combines multiple advantages. The impulse response features a very short settling time and ultra-fast damping, allowing the tweeter to extend its frequency response beyond 28 kHz at –3 dB.

Design and Home Integration

The design of the Dôme speakers is sleek and soft, with a completely smooth round shape and no visible screws when the grille is in place. Designed like an adjustable spotlight, the Dôme is an ideal and discreet sound source to position in your interiors. This aesthetic approach makes integration easy in all types of environments, from modern living rooms to dedicated home cinema setups.

The white lacquered finish naturally blends with contemporary interiors. The compact dimensions (172 × 144 × 143 mm) allow for flexible installation: it can be placed on a shelf or mounted on the wall or ceiling, offering flexible installation options. The weight of 1.9 kg ensures sufficient stability when placed and makes wall mounting easy.

Acoustic Performance and Practical Use

This two-way model is equipped with a tweeter and a woofer that respectively handle the highs and the mids and lows. The frequency response of this speaker reaches 80 - 28,000 Hz. This bandwidth covers most of the audible spectrum, but requires pairing with a subwoofer for the lowest frequencies.

The sensitivity of this model is 88 dB/m/W, placing these speakers in a category that is easily driven by most amplifiers. This speaker delivers a respectable continuous power of 100 W RMS, allowing for comfortable listening levels even in medium-sized rooms.

The nominal impedance of 8 ohms (minimum 4 ohms) ensures optimal compatibility with all amplifiers on the market. This feature makes integration into existing systems easy, with no particular matching constraints.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the main difference between the standard Dôme and the Dôme Flax? Focal integrates the Flax membrane into its mid-range speakers, such as the Aria series, which replaces the former Profile range. This new natural flax membrane approaches the performance of Focal’s W membrane. The Flax version uses this innovative natural flax membrane, while the standard version employs Polyglass technology, thus offering a higher level of performance, especially noticeable in the midrange.

Are these speakers suitable for a complete home cinema system? This sealed speaker is designed to be part of a 2.1 hi-fi system or a multichannel setup, with the support of a subwoofer such as the Focal Sub Air, for example. Their design makes them ideal for use as surround speakers or effects speakers in a 5.1 or 7.1 system, requiring a subwoofer for the lowest frequencies.

What type of amplifier is best suited for these speakers? Recommended amplifier: 25 W - 100 W. This power range matches most current hi-fi amplifiers and home cinema amplifiers. The 8-ohm impedance makes them easy to drive, with no particular constraints for the amplification electronics.

How can I optimize ceiling installation of these speakers? For ceiling installation, especially in an Atmos configuration, it is important to maintain an optimal tilt angle toward the listening area. The integrated orientation system allows for precise adjustment. Using dedicated Focal mounts ensures secure attachment and optimal adjustment of directivity.