Ten Passive Subwoofers and No LFE Channel: Focal and Naim Put About $145,000 of Electronics Behind a 171-Inch Barco LED Wall at CEDIA

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Aug 31, 2026· updated Aug 31, 2026

Focal, Naim and Barco have published a full component list — with US list prices attached — for the joint home theater demonstration the three brands are running at CEDIA Expo 2026 in Denver. According to a report from ecoustics.com, the room pairs a 171-inch Barco Runar micro-LED wall with a 7.0.4-channel Focal and Naim audio system, and adding up the published prices for the loudspeakers and electronics alone comes to roughly $145,272.

The demonstration is set up at booth 3123 in the Colorado Convention Center. Ecoustics gives the demonstration's own dates as 2-4 September 2026, which sits inside the broader run of CEDIA Expo 2026, which the show's organiser lists as taking place 1-4 September 2026 in Denver. This article treats those as compatible rather than conflicting: the show runs a day longer than the specific dates given for this room.

What's in the room

Per the ecoustics component list, the loudspeaker complement is built almost entirely from Focal's Utopia in-wall line:

8 x Focal 1000 IWLCR Utopia in-wall loudspeakers, $8,499 each
10 x Focal 1000 IWSUB Utopia passive in-wall subwoofers, $3,299 each
4 x Focal 1000 ICLCR5 in-ceiling loudspeakers, $2,699 each

Source ecoustics does not explain why the count of main in-wall loudspeakers is eight rather than seven, which would be the more familiar number for a "7"-designated layout, and offers no detail on how those eight are assigned across channels. We're reporting the figure as published rather than guessing at the wiring.

Driving all of that is a Focal Astral 16 processor/amplifier at $23,999, backed by four Naim CI-NAP 101 mono power amplifiers at $1,999 each and a Naim CI-Uniti 102 streaming amplifier at $1,499. Sources for the room are a Kaleidescape Movie Player and an Apple TV 4K — ecoustics does not list prices for either.

None of this hardware is being presented as new. The ecoustics report frames it as an installed demonstration system assembled from existing Focal and Naim product lines, not a product launch.

Why 7.0.4, not 7.1.4

The room's channel designation is the most distinctive detail in the listing. Home theater layouts conventionally use a ".1" to denote a discrete low-frequency effects (LFE) channel — a dedicated bass feed, usually reproduced by one or more subwoofers, carrying the low-frequency effects track mixed separately into most film and streaming soundtracks. This room has no such discrete channel. According to ecoustics, its ten Focal 1000 IWSUB Utopia passive subwoofers "are integrated with the main speaker channels rather than assigned to a dedicated LFE channel," which is why Focal, Naim and Barco are calling the configuration 7.0.4 instead of 7.1.4.

In practical terms, that means the ten subwoofers are being used to extend the bass response of the main and height channels rather than to reproduce a separate LFE track routed to them independently. That is the extent of what the source describes — no measurements, listening impressions or technical rationale for the approach are given, and nothing in the source compares this integration method against a conventional discrete-LFE setup on sound quality, coherence or any other performance metric.

The display: a 171-inch Barco Runar

The visual half of the demonstration is a Barco Runar LED wall specified at 171 inches diagonal, using micro-LED technology with a 0.9mm pixel pitch. Ecoustics lists it as running at native DCI 4K resolution — 4,096 x 2,160 pixels — across an image 3.84 metres wide. No price is published for the Barco Runar wall in the source material, and none should be inferred.

Doing the arithmetic on what is published

Adding up only the loudspeaker and electronics prices given by ecoustics — the 8 Focal 1000 IWLCR Utopia, 10 Focal 1000 IWSUB Utopia, 4 Focal 1000 ICLCR5, the Focal Astral 16, four Naim CI-NAP 101 amplifiers and the Naim CI-Uniti 102 — comes to $145,272 at the individual list prices given. That figure is arithmetic performed on published MSRPs for the audio hardware only. It explicitly excludes the Barco Runar LED wall, for which no price is published; the Kaleidescape Movie Player and Apple TV 4K sources; and any installation, cabling, calibration, construction or labor costs associated with actually building the room. It should not be read as "the price of the room" or as a total system cost — it is simply a sum of the audio component prices as listed.

Where to see it

The demonstration is scheduled for booth 3123 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, with ecoustics giving 2-4 September 2026 as the dates for this specific room, inside CEDIA Expo 2026's overall 1-4 September run as listed by the show's organiser.

Frequently asked questions

Why is the Focal and Naim CEDIA room called 7.0.4 instead of 7.1.4?

The room is designated 7.0.4 because its ten Focal 1000 IWSUB Utopia passive in-wall subwoofers are integrated directly with the main speaker channels rather than fed by a separate, discrete low-frequency effects (LFE) channel, which is what the middle number in a layout name like 7.1.4 normally denotes.

How much do the Focal and Naim components in the CEDIA 2026 demo room cost?

Adding the published list prices for the loudspeakers and electronics — 8 Focal 1000 IWLCR Utopia, 10 Focal 1000 IWSUB Utopia, 4 Focal 1000 ICLCR5, one Focal Astral 16, four Naim CI-NAP 101 amps and one Naim CI-Uniti 102 — totals $145,272. This excludes the Barco Runar display, sources, and installation costs.

What display is used in the Focal, Naim and Barco CEDIA 2026 demonstration?

The room uses a Barco Runar micro-LED wall measuring 171 inches diagonal with a 0.9mm pixel pitch, running at native DCI 4K resolution of 4,096 x 2,160 pixels across a 3.84-metre-wide image. No price has been published for this display.

Where and when is the Focal, Naim and Barco demonstration room at CEDIA Expo 2026?

The demonstration is located at booth 3123 in the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, running 2-4 September 2026 according to the ecoustics report, within CEDIA Expo 2026's broader show dates of 1-4 September 2026 as listed by the event organiser.