Atomic QT 6.5C2
A two-way component speaker system with separate tweeter units, midbass drivers and passive crossovers. Complete with a sticker and literally nothing else! A purist product, it says something about ‘We’ll be here for when you get serious’ on the box. The contents were seriously heavily built and had just about the largest motor assemblies in the entire group. The speakers also look serious because of the Carbon fibre cones and spun solid billet Aluminium phase plugs in their centres. There’s also a rubber boot on the magnets.
The passives are without any adjustment (the makers figure you won’t be making compromise installs with these) and feature very heavy duty inductor coils for high power handling, despite the absurdly low declared 60w RMS nominal rating. The tweeters are likewise a no-compromise scale of build.
– Power Handling 60wRMS
– Sensitivity 88.31dB 1w/1m
– Own Pink noise test figure 114.1dB (Vol @20 @ trk 9 dB Drag Vol III)
– Passband 100Hz to 20kHz
– Tweeter diameter 30mm
– Tweeter Mounting Depth 23mm
– Midbass Mounting Depth 70mm
– Cone: Carbon Fibre
– Tweeter: Silk Dome
– Crossover point <5kHz but not quoted
– Chassis: Pressed steel
– Complete with: a sticker and that’s it. They have mucho data but it’s not in the box
Review by Adam Rayner
These speakers are not going to fit in many stock locations as they have a major mounting depth. Stonking great midbass drivers that out-large even those of the DLS set we looked at. They have rubber boots but the magnets within are still very big. The tweeters are lovely wide soft domes. The set is about quality sound as they scored an easy nine for simply being so sweet, rich and deliciously effortless.
A big bass end with that wonderful fat weight to the lower midband as well as incredible scale and magnitude. They absolutely loved being driven as hard as the reference iPaul amplifier could throw its 2 x 270 w RMS at them. My notes say, ‘Very big and very clever’ and they most certainly are. You really need not worry about the lack of data that these come with as Atomic are brilliant at looking after their punters and the UK vendors are backed up on an individual basis as well. So if you want to get with them, you can discuss how to fit them. A very heavy duty set of big American audio items with epic sized sound and yet a steal at the price. Nutty VFM and a Talk Audio Recommended baton.
Overall 9.0
Sound Quality 9
Build Quality 9
Power Handling 10
Efficiency 8
Value For Money 9