Most headphone brands are racing towards the same goal: minimal, understated, almost invisible. Focal has gone the other way. Its headphones look like precision instruments: all sharp edges, polished chamfers and honeycomb grilles that wouldn't look out of place on a supercar's air intake.
We spoke to Edgar Paccoud, innovation project manager at Focal, about where that look comes from, and surprisingly, it turns out very little of it is decorative.
