The Focal Dome is a satellite-subwoofer system with excellent sound performance, it takes little space and offers multiple placement options.

Focal 's nicely rounded Dôme 5.1 was £1500 when we first tested it two years ago, but has recently had a very handy £500 sliced off its price, bringing it into line with rivals such as the Q Acoustics 7000i, KEF E305 and B&W MT-50 .

Superb build quality; Impressive musicality and insight; Powerful; punchy bass; Lower price

Soundstage could be wider

Focal JMlab is one of Europe's leading hi-fi manufacturers and is best known in the field of larger loudspeakers, its expertise with the Sib & Cub fashion-centric, compact system shows it can also dabble with the latter.

While perusing products at the 2008 Festival Son et Image this past April in Montreal, I stumbled across a number of products that captured my attention. One of these products was a set of 5.1-channel speakers from a brand new series called Dôme from French speaker maker Focal JMlab.

I have had this speaker package for 2 weeks,first of all they look and sound awesome,but use them wall mounted..?there is a inherent design flaw,first of all these speakers are not the easiest to fit on a wall as you have to fit a horseshouse shaped bracket to the wall of which the speaker slides on...

looks ; sound quality

dreadful design flaw ; dont wall mount

Bought 2 sets so far. Excellent sound and great service.

From People Who Do It RightWhenever the depravity of the human race plunges me into despair, I think of Paris. Then I feel better.That I cannot speak to French people in their own language is one of my lasting regrets.

From People Who Do It RightWhenever the depravity of the human race plunges me into despair, I think of Paris. Then I feel better.That I cannot speak to French people in their own language is one of my lasting regrets.