CDT ES 62i

A two-way component speaker system with separate tweeter units, midbass drivers and passive crossovers. Complete with a particularly high quality mounting kit to fit the tweeters in more than one application and screws and fixings. This product was unique amongst the twenty sets tested in that it has passives with extra tweeter connections. This is a provision for adding a set of TW-19 LP tune-up or image enhancement tweeters. This is an £80 option and is designed expressly to go with this speaker set. The silk domed tweeters the set came with can also be ordered with Aluminium or Titanium domes depending upon the sort of result you would like.
The passives have a jumper you can move and are marked simply with 5.25in 6.5in by way of indication of the midbass driver they would be set for use with. These midbass drivers have cast chassis and the cones seem very wobbly or compliant. The set oozes quality and so it should at the price!
– Power Handling 180wRMS
– Sensitivity 91.3dB 1w/1M
– Own Pink noise test figure 115.2dB (Vol @20 @ trk 9 dB Drag Vol III)
– Passband 65Hz to 20 kHz
– Tweeter diameter 30mm
– Tweeter Mounting Depth 19mm
– Midbass Mounting Depth 70mm NB 149mm cut-out NOT STANDARD!!
– Cone: Treated Kevlar fabric with semi-soft polymer dust dome
– Tweeter: DRT26 silk but can be Aluminium or Titanium to order
– Crossover slope & point: not quoted
– Chassis: Cast with powder coating
– Complete with: High quality tweeter mounting hardware (flush/angle/angle flush/surface), fixings
– Passive has extra terminals for addition of tune-up tweeters
Review by Adam Rayner
This brand of speakers should not be confused with the US ‘Clif Designs’ name I saw at the SEMA show, despite their mutual origins. Once the designer was a part of their operation but politics aside as to why, split away from that company and took his own flavour of expertise with him. I really don’t know much about the USA product of similar name but I do know these CDT ‘Eurosport’ speakers are very high quality indeed.
Having garnered more accolades than Captain Kirk with fabulous reviews all over the world, this reviewer is about to deliver one more. Superb open clarity and speed, with space around things becoming audible. You get more of what the producer intended. The sound quality is just wonderful and has a true hifi excellence. In fact CDT’s distributors are selling some hifi style boxes with CDT components inside (passives affixed to the back) simply to demo their stuff all the better in mobile electronics dealerships in the UK. Rich and yet clear these speakers do have an astonishing price tag but you can easily hear why. The tweeters are fabulous, the weight and authority of the music along with the edges of sounds was beautiful. The Race by Yello was wonderful it was a major demo track at hifi shows the year it came out and this reminded me of the show I went to. Fabulously efficient at turning watts into music too, these earned themselves at Talk Audio Best Buy.
Overall 9.4
Sound Quality 10
Build Quality 10
Power Handling 10
Efficiency 9
Value For Money 8