Fusion CP-FR6930 six by nine speakers

Product Details
Manufacturer: Fusion
Distributor: CEL Trade/Fusion Europe
Website: link
Typical Selling price: £59.99

A classic steel-chassis oval speaker with a mid and tweeter mounted on a pole in the middle. Both these are dome drivers and are made from Silk, a feature only found on better quality speakers. They were mounted in enclosures made by the now ancient and legendary Fusion Area 51 woodsmiths, which is apposite, since these boxes have now been used to test at least fifty different models of six by nine speaker in their time, including a massive thrice-ten-group set I did in Fast Car magazine once
They were hooked up to a Fusion CA-DA41400 four channel amplifier, reviewed here: link and had a variety of music played through them. But mostly mad bass CD material!
– Impedance: 4 Ohms
– Power Handling: 75W RMS/300W peak
– Silk Dome Tweeter & Midband drivers
– Injection Moulded Polypropylene (IMPP) bass cones
– Passband: 25Hz to 30kHz
– Pressed Steel chassis, grilles supplied
– Sensitivity (1w/1m): 90dB
– Three-way, mid and HF on fixed pole mount
– Mounting Depth:84mm
– C/W grilles, wires, long fixing screws, manual, warranty card, window sticker and thick card perforated mounting template
Editor review : Fusion CP-FR6930 full range six by nine speakers
On the box these come in, it says that they feature technology from the high end home audio market. By which I guess at the price, they are referring to the use of pukka Silk domes for the mid and tweeter assembly.
I fired these up on just one pair of a four channel amplifier’s outputs so as to really give them some spank, with ALL the power supply of the four channeler offering juice to the watts these babies were to get. I slapped a favourite heavy duty bass CD in the slot and in fact decided that this really was well produced enough complete with simple spoken-voice sections to use as full reference.
It’s the old fave and still deeply bizarre-able-to-shock ‘˜Power Supply’ with the car-audio related lyrics about watts and woofers and even alternators. How about, ‘StreetWire 180 Amp alternator tougher to kill than a Terminator!’ I kid you not, this stuff is crazed. I spared the poor things the track six ‘˜woofer excursion test’ torture and played ‘˜My Bass Hits Hard’ a ditty about Soundstream amps, I think!
Anyway the point of the above is that my thoughts could simply be about the music choice as these speakers are a classic chunk of six by niney-ness. A solid and fat rich bass yet with control and some taut grip, due to the power and the lumpen motors on their arses. Along with a sweetly potent and able to impress high and midband.
This comes leaping from the Silk and yet even if you are finding yourself close to the limit of the amplifier, in this case way above what the speakers are supposed to be able to handle, nominally, they still retain sweetness and never ever get hard and harsh as a hard dome tends to.
Overall, I found them beautifully made at the price point (obviously, they are not £300 a set cast-chassis jobs with external passives now there’s a thought, Fusion.) and surprisingly able with the power. I know that a true 75W for an oval is big power handling and yet hate the daft peak figures they use citing 450w for a six by nine is asking for an idiot to put two bass amps up ‘˜em. But they DO take way more than the 75w RMS quoted as I was sending a solid three figures up them and they reached down and did the silly bass CD stuff and reached up and did the highs and mids with great aplomb.
I liked them enough to recommend them, for power, sound, looks, likely longevity and even for being cool.
Overall 8.8
Sound Quality 8
Build Quality 9
Power Handling 9
Efficiency 8
Value For Money 10