RE Audio 69FR

A similar mounted pole assembly to the Morel and Cerwin Vega models yet has two tweeters instead of one. These are Neodymium magnet designs and have Ferrofluid magnetic goop suspended in their voice coil gaps. This serves to both damp the tweeter dome’s motion and cool the tiny voice coils within so the power handling and uncompressed accuracy of the tweeter is enhanced dramatically. Furthermore, there are two of them, so I expect a serious amount of level from them. The grilles are fat and shapely in a featured-install style but you can choose to mount your speakers from underneath on a stealth shelf as they are designed to do this too. A high power handling speaker for the money. Love the chromed top and bottom plates on the magnet looks so much classier than simple rubber armour over a slug of ugly Ferrite.
– Pressed Steel chassis – Injection moulded Polypropylene cone
– Butyl rubber top roll surround
– Foam piece fitted to base of cone to collect debris and keep gap clear
– Polyester textile dome midrange and tweeter with Neodymium magnets and Ferrofluid
– Power handling 100w RMS, 200w peak
– Sensitivity 91dB (2.83V, 1m)- Frequency Response: 45Hz to 20kHz
– Impedance 4 Ohms- Mounting depth 90mm
– Lug connection terminals for spade-end speaker connectors
– Heavy duty moulded ABS resin grilles
Review by Adam Rayner
An interesting proposition in that RE make some of the most serious woofers in existence yet produce a very few full range speakers too. Less actual full range products than there are whole ranges of woofers as they go from merely good all the way to bonkers and then on to Weapons-Grade. And these are the six by nines made to keep up with them. They have nice big magnets and the two paired tweeters look serious too. You fire them up and find that RE are not about raucous but smooth audio and the two soft domes serve to keep a very even, sweet sound, far more easy on the ear than the Pioneer TS-A6903i speakers. They took more power and got a bit louder in SPL terms at 114.4dB at max without distortion but the deeper richer bass was definitely better again than the cheaper Pioneers mentioned above.
A good smooth sound then but a little lacking in midband presence. Lots of detail and the tweeters don’t ‘pish’ or blend high frequency sounds together. Coupled with that richer bass it makes them unfatiguing to listen to at high levels, which as they are to keep up with some ridiculous woofers, is just as well. While playing good and loud with a female vocal from the Spirit of Sound #6 CD I use, there were big Asian Tabla drums boinging and brapping in the mix and they came out with great levels of definition, even when all the other stuff was going on.
So although not monstrous in themselves, these will keep up with just about anything as an adjunct to woofers rather than a replacement for them.
Overall 8.4
Sound Quality 8
Build Quality 8
Power Handling 8
Efficiency 9
Value For Money 9