Focal Chora 826

The Focal Chora 826 tower speaker delivers accessible high-fidelity sound at a very competitive price point. Featuring a distinguished design that is...

French loudspeaker maker Focal pours a lot of time and money into R&D – probably more than most of its competitors. Originally known as Focal-JMLab, the company was founded in 1979 in Saint-Étienne by the engineer and hi-fi journalist Jacques Mahul...

Drawing on its extensive expertise, from the manufacture of drive units to final assembly, Focal has developed an affordable floorstander able to sound great on demonstration and in the home. At the heart of the Chora 826 is a new ‘Slatefibre' driver,...

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Focal's design team should stand up and take a bow. The Chora home-theater system provided remarkable surround envelopment from speakers that take up no more space than a standard 5.1-channel system. The addition of Dolby Atmos modules to the Chora...

Only had this set up which is the 826-D rear 806 and chora centre speaker. After setting them all up and calerbated the Yamaha RDX-V3070 Yapoo I was blown away. Its not till you get a full Dolby Atmos system that you realise what have I been missing....

This is the most expensive hi fi item I have ever bought and it does justice to my naim 5 level components. Puccini arias are it's forte and Rachmaninov's concertos are reproduced with subtlety, detail and the grandeur of a full orchestra. As for the...

I decided I needed a speaker upgrade and scheduled an audition of a number of speakers. After reading reviews, I was pretty sure I'd end up with some B&W or KEF speakers. It was great to be able to test the speakers with my own amplifier. After...

We upgraded our home cinema and I came across these speakers at the last HIFI exhibition before the COVID turned the lights off. DOLBY ATMOS wow, the quality is amazing and we chose Grey and it blends so well (standing in the corner) and despite the...