Clarion SRS 1752HX

A two-way component speaker system with separate tweeter units, midbass drivers and passive crossovers. Complete with a mounting kit to fit the tweeters in more than one application and screws and fixings. The midbass drivers have woven fibreglass cones and Strontium enhanced magnets. The tweeters have dual Neodymium magnets and reach up to an absurd 120kHz. So much further than anything else that the bat frequencies too are still way below the limits of what the driver can do so it is the least stressed at normal treble tones.
The box has perforated card templates within it and the set comes with wires carrying the correct crimps to affix to the speakers as well as the usual bits. These cast chassis speakers look very high quality and score well on build.
– Power Handling 55w RMS
– Sensitivity 91dB 1w/1M
– Own Pink noise test figure 113.5dB (Vol @20 @ trk 9 dB Drag Vol III)
– Passband 25Hz to 120kHz
– Tweeter diameter 20mm
– Tweeter Mounting Depth 18mm
– Midbass Mounting Depth 73mm
– Cone: Glassfibre with rubber surround & Strontium magnet
– Tweeter: Dual neodymium magnet
– Crossover slope & point: 12dB per octave @ 4kHz
– Chassis: die cast Aluminium with Strontium magnet
– Complete with: surface/flush/angle mount tweeter kit, fixings, wires, card perforated templates and terminals
Review by Adam Rayner
These are the slightly more upper middle class versions of the clever Clarion phase coherent coaxials using similar materials. Glassfibre was only recently tamed to be used as a cone material – before that it’d fragment and give you the nasties if you inhaled it! The properties are in the same improbable lightness the material has always been famed for, with the same famous strength. Canoes were once fibreglass and now I’ll bet it’s all CF and even Kevlar at the Olympics. Anyway, it means a tenner less than the £200 price point and yet offers some heavy duty performance. Married to the really rather exotic tweeters, this set sings.
A huge sound with a bass end of similar weight and import to the DLS product. You can hear the rapid snap and attack of the cone on edgy sounds. I especially loved the rasp of the engine note in the passing race car in the eponymous Yello track. The weight of the bass and the effortless ease of the tweeter does enable you to hear that the midrange sweetness of some of the fiercely expensive products isn’t in there but this is more of an indicator of how darn good these are for the money asked. My notes say ‘really crisp and detailed’. These speakers seen to like being played loud and thrive on dance music.
Overall 8.4
Sound Quality 8
Build Quality 9
Power Handling 8
Efficiency 8
Value For Money 9