{"id":579,"date":"2016-12-20T19:16:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T06:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2019-02-14T19:29:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T06:29:25","slug":"dd-audio-bc6-5-speaker-product-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/dd-audio-bc6-5-speaker-product-review\/","title":{"rendered":"DD Audio BC6.5 Speaker Product Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I must say right from the start that these 6.5\u2033 BC Series Component Speakers<\/strong> from DD Audio<\/strong> did impress me right from being handed the box\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now in saying that I mean they were very weighty and I have always felt that a bit of weight equalled quality, but as we all know that\u2019s not always the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Again no short cuts here either descent high quality crossovers as well, really looking forward to getting these in our demo board and have a listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess we should look and the description and specifications first\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Description for BC6.5 Component Set:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on DD\u2019s<\/strong> flagship A-Series Components<\/strong>, the BC6.5 Components<\/strong> offer incredible audio quality at an equally incredible value. The features found on the BC6.5s<\/strong> are the same as you would find on other, much higher priced, high end sound quality component sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mid Driver:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through advanced metallurgy techniques the BC6.5s<\/strong> anodized aluminium cone mid driver has been optimized with the perfect balance of weight, rigidity, and damping resulting in a driver that is able to efficiently produce a wide bandwidth of silky smooth mid range. DD<\/strong> used a cast aluminium basket for extra rigidity, heat dissipation, and minimal parasitic magnetic absorption. For durability and installation convenience, we outfitted it with heavy duty chrome push terminals. Topping off the veritable cornucopia of performance features is the use of a shorting ring. You can\u2019t see this feature, but what it does for the driver is almost magical. It minimizes back emf and inductance resulting in lower harmonic distortion, better high end extension, better power delivery to the voice coil, and it even helps with heat dissipation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tweeter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The composite design of the 30mm silk surround aluminium dome tweeter exhibits excellent transparency and resolution, and handles the high end spectrum frequencies with sonic excellence. The tweeter has a vented back for better coil cooling, better frequency response, and lower distortion. The tweeter also features a shorting ring just like the mid driver. The tweeter is able to be surface mounted with the included bezel, or it can be mounted raw for those tight factory locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crossover:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The included CC1<\/strong> 2nd order bi-ampable passive crossover (also sold separately) is both eye pleasing with its dual finish metal chassis and hidden speaker terminals, and highly functional. It features +\/- 3db tweeter attenuation, tweeter phase shift, selectable conventional or bi-amp input mode, air core coils, and metallized film caps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crossover Frequency:               4kHz \u2013 12 dB\/Oct<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frequency Response:                40Hz \u2013 25kHz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Power Handling (RMS\/Peak)      50 \u2013 100<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A \u2013 Outside Diameter                 6.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B \u2013 Cutout Diameter                   5.51<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C \u2013 Mounting Depth                   2.88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D \u2013 Motor Diameter                    3.90<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E \u2013 Motor Depth\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

F \u2013 Outside Height\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0.60<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DD Audio History: <\/strong>Since 1986, we have been building products for the\u00a0Pro Audio Industry,\u00a0Marine Industry,\u00a0Mobile Audio,\u00a0Home Audio,\u00a0Industrial Applications\u00a0and\u00a0OEM Applications\u00a0that are still in use around the world. We take pride in our role as an American design and manufacturing company, offering high quality products for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We spare no expense to create products that are built to last. Our woofers are assembled by hand in the USA using the finest quality parts in the industry. The components used to build our products are specifically designed to maximize longevity and sound quality. We do not make compromises to profit from substandard equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time to fire up these speakers and see how they sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First thing I noticed was sound direction seemed a bit weird at first but then realized what was happening I wasn\u2019t used to tweeters being multi-directional as these are. Now this is great when you can\u2019t mount the tweeters high or when mounted behind you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound-wise non amplified they sound very smooth, precise deep rich bass and mids are just there, but not over powering. Then amplified, well then they\u2019re something else I really was surprised as having the AW6.5\u2019s Series HQ Component Speakers<\/strong> in my car, it was going to be an interesting comparison, to be honest, probably not a fair one, as price between these is quite substantial. But hey the BC6.5\u2019s<\/strong> really rock and you won\u2019t be disappointed owning a set of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh and got to love the packaging and presentation top notch to the guys at DD Audio<\/strong>!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First thing I noticed was sound direction seemed a bit weird at first but then realized what was happening I wasn\u2019t used to tweeters being multi-directional as these are. Now this is great when you can\u2019t mount the tweeters high or when mounted behind you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound-wise non amplified they sound very smooth, precise deep rich bass and mids are just there, but not over powering. Then amplified, well then they\u2019re something else I really was surprised as having the AW6.5\u2019s Series HQ Component Speakers<\/strong> in my car, it was going to be an interesting comparison, to be honest, probably not a fair one, as price between these is quite substantial. But hey the BC6.5\u2019s<\/strong> really rock and you won\u2019t be disappointed owning a set of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh and got to love the packaging and presentation top notch to the guys at DD Audio<\/strong>!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must say right from the start that these 6.5\u2033 BC Series Component Speakers from DD Audio did impress me right from being handed the box\u2026 Now in saying that I mean they were very weighty and I have always felt that a bit of weight equalled quality, but as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}