Focal Stellia

The Focal Stellia is the finest headphone I’ve ever heard, with exceptional clarity, superb soundstage and imaging, and an exceedingly well-balanced presentation of deep bass, clean mids, and sparkling highs. Even better, it’s super-comfortable to wear for extended periods, which I happily did.

My friends and coworkers nearly had a coronary when they found out how much the very conspicuous looking pair of cognac-coloured leather-bound headphones were worth when they ran into me with them over the past few weeks. Admittedly, there are a few...

The Stellia is truly outstanding and a welcome addition to the high-end headphone ranks. It rivals the very best open-back competition in a domestic environment, proves to be exceptionally comfortable for long listening sessions and continues to delight...

The Stellia is French audio manufacturer Focal's latest headphone offering, and only their second to offer a closed-back design. At $3,000 they are also entering into territory not often broached by “portable” headphones. So, are such costly cans worth...

For you Chicago area folks, it was one of the old ones where Ray Samuels brought his Lamborghini, Jude from Head-Fi came and there was some incredibly cool uber high-end stuff – an early generation Smyth Realizer, multiple Stax 009 setups, the LCD-3 had...

It's not every day you get to throw a set of $4,499.00 headphones on your noggin. But this week our Dictator Trevor Long let me take home for the night the Focal Stellia set on loan to us. These are closed-back style headphones that essentially cram in...

In common with other designs in Focal's range, its 40mm full-range drivers have an M-shaped diaphragm to deliver a fast, dynamic and neutral performance. It claims a frequency range from 5Hz to 40kHz with 35ohm impedance and sensitivity specified at...