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FOCAL CLEAR Reference Headphones

I realise my opportunity to spend a few weeks of alone time with Focal’s two thousand dollar reference headphones is an experience shared by few. The rest of the AT office realised this too — one of our graphic designers insisted on taking the Clear home for a weekend. As financially inaccessible as they are, exorbitant headphones will always have a certain appeal, and it’s mostly based on curiosity: do expensive headphones really sound expensive?

Funnily enough, Clear isn’t the priciest in Focal’s luxury headphone line —

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