FocalClear Mg Professional Circum-aural Open-Back Headphones, Black

This is my first time listening to any Focal headphone...and also anything I would consider to be hi-fi. I have had other headphones in the sub-500 price range that I enjoyed. These are just on another level.Pros - Very comfortable. Yes 450g is heavy for a headphone, but the weight is distributed so well that they almost just feel light. I can wear these for hours just fine.Very clear. As in their name, they are just clear. Not spiky in the treble at all, but it is present for sure. These really bring out the vocals in music which I love!These do have bass, but by any means these are not bassy headphones. So do not buy them if you are wanting that. The bass here is done very well though. It's present and clean. Yes it will slam if the song has it.Details are very nice and I would consider these just as they are described on many sites: warm/neutral sound. Slight bump in the lower bass from the original clear too.These are also pretty easy to drive. They do like some power, but you can definitely run them on something as simple as a phone if needed.Cons -If I had to give it one knock its that the soundstage is not as wide for open back. This has been stated everywhere else also. It has stage for sure, but that is not what these excel at. I'm ok with it because everything else is done so very well.Price?? Depending on how comfortable you are paying this much for headphones. I wanted to experience this level of sound in a headphone, so I did the splurge. No regrets.Overall I am still in the early stages of listening..but I had to give these a highly recommended review. Focal deserves that much from me!

I've only had these Focal Clear MG Professional headphones for a few days in my home studio. I burned them in for 24 hours, and have not yet verified translation of mixes made on them. Compared to my Sennheiser HD650s and AKG K812s, these have great clarity and balance throughout the spectrum, they're fun to listen to, and I believe they will be great for mixing now that I've corrected the muddiness they have in the 100Hz region with SonarWorks' SoundIDReference software profile. I'm not sure the standard profile gets it just right, and SonarWorks classify these headphones only for "Listening" and NOT for mixing. Nevertheless, until I'm proven wrong (and update this review) I'm saying these are exceptional headphones for mixing various styles of music. I work mainly with popular and acoustic styles as a hobby. A lot of other people who mix music seem to think they're great, so I'm thinking they're probably pretty good.Pros: Look cool and inspiring. Excellent construction. Comfortable to wear. Sound fantastic (with correction).Cons: The cables are either too short (3'), or maybe just long enough, but coiled -- the two choices that come with them. Without correction they're muddy in the 100Hz region, and have some dips in the upper mids, I think.

I'm a professional musician and I mix/master my own music almost exclusively on headphones. I've been doing this on Sennheiser HD6XX for some time now and always had problems with getting my low ends correctly dialed in. After extensive research and trying some other headphones like Audeze, I decided to sell my kidney and get these. They sound incredible and it still has an overall flat sound, but with very dialed in punchy lows that are not hyped. The balance between quality, comfort and quality is the best I've experienced so far.

Sound is unimpressive. Technicals are good, attack and detail are decent, sound stage decent. Build quality is excellent. However the overall sound signature, lack of any warm low end or impact, and general timbre of the headphone is unimpressive. There's not enough detail or resolution or soundstage for me to really recommend these at such a high price point.

Aural spectrum is crystal clear with no coloration!