Morel Pulse 6×9
Wearing their tweeters deep into the bass cone is quite deliberate here and is about creating a more coherent sound source for better imaging. Likewise, the manual with these also describes the product’s low crossover frequency of four thousand Hz, in order to drop the critical hearable crossover point deeper away from our midband most-sensitive hearing zone.
A single tweeter rather than two or a third midrange driver, these look unassuming but are subtly better built than most here. The large yellow capacitor with an ‘S’ on it (I suspected it of being a legendary Solen brand but couldn’t find an image to match the upside-down Superman ‘S’ in a triangle.) is far bigger than whatever most brands tuck under their tweeters, which means that more power can flow and proves that they are quality items. The swivel tweeter mount helps direct the highs. More useful in a coaxial in a door of course and simply inherited here in the six by nine size but you can mess about bouncing the highs off your rear screen till they splash the way you like it best. Or dissipate into the roof lining! Like the RE FR6x9, the wire feeding the capacitor-filtered watts to go off to the tweeter, goes in through the back of the magnet on decently thick conductors rather than looming about on bare tinsel wires inside. Quality.
– Pressed Steel chassis
– Large single high quality capacitor for 6dB crossover
– One inch (25mm) EVC„¢ soft dome tweeter with Neodymium magnet
– Tweeter with swivel mount has low 4kHz crossover point
– Felt piece on cone protecting gap around pole supporting HF from dirt ingress
– Power handling 150w RMS, 300w peak
– Sensitivity 90dB (2.83V, 1m)
– Frequency Response: 35Hz to 22kHz
– Impedance 4 Ohms
– Mounting depth 80mm
– Lug connection terminals for spade-end speaker connectors
– Pressed Steel grilles
Product Details
Manufacturer: Morel
Distributor: Flagship Distribution
Website: http://www.morelhifi.com
Typical Selling price: £149.00
Review by Adam Rayner
These look like very little but come from a stable of speakers that go up to thousands and are masters of the high frequency. Morel soft domes and tweeters are legends in their own lunchtime and if you an audiophile then these are the ones. Proper, serious SQ with awesome imaging and pin-sharp high frequency accuracy. These go a long way into that ineffable loveliness that is proper HiFi. In fact you could simply enclose five of these and call it a cinema system of great poshness!
My notes read, ‘Holy Cow! This tweeter is head, shoulders and breasts above all the others!’ Delicious, rare, tingly and detailed. A sweet and lovely sound all round, with superb vocal clarity. Those girly mouth sounds are amazing, and the positioning of sounds was noticeably tighter than even the lovely Pioneer TS-E6902i, not just left and right but with the tweeters aimed directly on-axis at my ears, I was even getting some up and down level staging going on, which is remarkable and pure psycho-acoustics!
Morel make some scarily expensive speaker component sets but if you could build these into a front soundstage it’d be ‘job done’ easily beating some really costly items. You can count every voice in a line up of backing vocalists, able to discern one voice from another with ease. Not violently loud, they raised about as much level as the Cerwin-Vega 69s at 113.8dB maximum but just fabulously higher in sound quality than any yet although I do have six more to look at in the current group
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If you are an audiophile at heart and are ready for some insane levels of quality from a speaker that the hardcore simply detest just because of its jug-ears, then the Morel Pulse 6×9 is a beast and scores enough to richly deserve a Talk Audio Best Buy Award.
Overall 9.2
Sound Quality 10
Build Quality 9
Power Handling 9
Efficiency 8
Value For Money 10
