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Highlights
Closed-back headphones for home and on-the-go use
Outstanding design, fine materials and Navy Blue finishes, with Soft Copper details
Remarkable sound performance: incredible bass extension, and tonal balance unrivalled in their category
Low impedance (35 Ohms) to ensure uncompromising use with a portable audio player
Technical Specifications
Type
Circum-aural closed-back headphones
Impedance
35 Ohms
Sensitivity
105dB SPL / 1 mW @ 1 kHz
THD
0,1 % @ 1 kHz / 100 dB SPL
Frequency response
5Hz – 23kHz
Speaker driver
15/8" (40mm) Aluminium/Magnesium ‘M’-shaped dome
Weight
0.95lb (430g)
What’s In The Box?
Focal Celestee Closed-Back Over-Ear Headphones
Carrying Case matching Celestee colours
4 ft. (1.2m) mini-jack (3.5mm) cable with a 1/4" (6.3mm) adapter
There’s no shortage of names in this hobby that can be mispronounced all too easily. Audeze/Odyssey still wins the grand prize. But here I don’t see un accent aigu, so it must be Celestee as in yipee, right?!
I wonder how close an Elegia with leather pads will sound to the Celestee. I put Dekoni sheepskins on mine and it boosted the bass while giving the treble an ever so slight smoothing. Mids sound a bit different to me, not recessed, but not as forward, though it could be placebo.
I’m grabbing a pair for myself based on my impressions before @Resolve snatched them.
Pretty different from the Radiance where the Radiance was pretty warm. I’d say the Celestee is a lot closer to the Clear in closed-back form. But why listen to me when @Resolve will have a review up in the next day or two
It’s too bad there isn’t a loaner tour of the Celestee and Radiance so we can figure out which fits our preferences better when deciding which to buy from headphones.com…
