Over-ear · Headphones
Focal Bathys
Over-ear headphones with noise cancelling, 30 h battery, best codec aptX Adaptive.
78.8Score
- #61 of 86 ranked
- #30 of 41 over-ears
Why this score
The score adds up these parts. Each part has a weight. A part counts as the average of its sources, pulled toward 80 when there are few sources.
Sound
40% weightcounts as 79.7Average of 2 sources: 79.5
Experts
35% weightcounts as 79.1Average of 2 sources: 78.7
Users
25% weightcounts as 76.8Average of 1 source: 73.7
Good: 5 ratings.
80 is the field average. A part counts as 80 + (average − 80) × N ÷ (N + 1), where N is its number of sources. One source counts half of the gap from 80. No sources count as 80.
Price
€599 at Geizhals.at · Geizhals.at listing, not checked live
Black also €599; beige €649. May include German shops.
Prices checked 8 Oct 2026.
Specs
- Type
- Over-ear, closed-back
- Released
- 2022
- Drivers
- Dynamic
- ANC
- Yes
- Multipoint
- Not stated
- Codecs
- SBC, AAC, aptX, aptX Adaptive
- Low lag
- cable (0 ms)
- Wired
- Analog yes, USB-C audio yes
- Battery
- 30 h
- Weight
- 350 g
- Folds
- No
- Cable notes
- USB-DAC mode up to 24-bit/192 kHz.
Notes
Warm, full-bodied and rich (What Hi-Fi). SoundGuys: bass subdued, timbre accurate.
SoundGuys measured about 295 ms lag over aptX.