This is my review of the Fritz Carbon 6.
It took me a few weeks to really appreciate the Carbon 6’s but once I did, let me tell, I fell in love with them. The Carbon 6’s are a solid sounding, beautifully handcrafted speaker, designed and built from start to finish by a single person.
The Carbon 6’s, like all of Fritz’s designs, use an acoustic reality crossover. Acoustic reality series crossovers inherently use less components and therefore keeps the signal more pure. Fritz informs me that series crossovers are more difficult to implement but that the results are worth the extra work because they just sound better.
The Carbon 6’s use an SB Acoustics soft dome tweeter in conjunction with a carbon fiber and rohacell sandwiched 6” driver. The integration between the two drivers is flawless. Fritz has a knack for pairing drivers together that sound very cohesive. I absolutely could not tell where the crossover point was nor where one driver handed off to the other.
The Carbon 6’s didn’t grab my attention right away, but now after 3 weeks with them, I like them more and more everyday. They provided the opposite of the “honeymoon effect”. That’s not to say that they didn’t sound great right away but I could see someone being completely satisfied with these speakers for a very long time.
The Carbon 6’s are very dynamic, open, detailed, and fast. They have great pace rhythm and timing, and the tight punchy bass propels the music forward in a fun, bouncy manner. The bass response is outstanding. They were able to produce tight, satisfying bass down into the low 40 hz range and do so quite loudly without any audible strain or compression of the music. There is not one part of the frequency range that sticks out or draws attention to itself. The low end sounds great, as do the mids and the highs. There is absolutely no veil between you and the music that I am able to hear. Just a clean clear picture of the music. The speakers image really well and are able to provide a nice deep soundstage.
I’m really not sure that there is much to fault with the Carbon 6’s. They are a very solid all around performer and will easily please many people looking for a compact stand mount speaker. If you are looking for a stand mount speaker around the $2k price point that does everything well, I’d suggest that you put the Carbon 6’s on your short list. Fritz is an exceptional speaker builder, continually designing and building solid sounding speakers that he sells at a very fair price.
I highly recommend these speakers as well as all of Fritz’s speakers in general. They are well thought out, beautifully constructed, and just sound really, really good. Another job well done!
Bravo Fritz!
The link to pictures, associated equipment and set-up details is:
http://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8739
