Dellichord FR35 – A brand new take on the classic LS3/5A

In collaboration with the celebrated loudspeaker designer, Brad Serhan on crossover design and development, the result is a full-range speaker that delivers outstanding sound quality in full colour. This little speaker has wonderful texture and instrument placement, images beautifully and unveils hidden detail in recordings without fatigue. The FR35 fills any sized room with musical joy.

The FR35 provides musical reproduction that will amaze and delight you with its remarkable transparency and fine detail. This bookshelf monitor can hold its own against similar designs at much higher price points.

Key design features

• FR35 bookshelf monitor is a full range speaker in its own right but you can add the FR20 to create your own FR2035 System
• Extraordinary sound quality in this price range
• Designed and manufactured in Australia in our own facility

Years in the making.

Designer, Andrew Hutchison, has a long history with the BBC classic LS3/5a monitor. Andrew and his design team strove to design a speaker rich in detail and authentic reproduction of the mid range frequencies of the human voice. You could say the FR35 is a homage, an ode or a tip-of-the-hat to the legendary LS3/5a updated for the modern ear. Andrew and his team were lead by the fundamentals of the design of the LS3/5a including the size of the diaphragm of the drive units, front baffle, and cabinet – adding modern technologies such as neodymium magnets, hybrid cone materials, self-damped cabinet materials, and visco-elastic sealants. The bass was tuned lower and flatter by increasing cabinet depth and in turn, increasing the volume from this small, sealed box.

The FR35 bookshelf monitor has been designed as a full-range loudspeaker in its own right. Some have said that the only improvement to an LS3/5a style loudspeaker would be more bass. Dellichord has done just that and more by incorporating the FR35 into an active bass system as the FR2035 IsoActive System. This system ‘polishes’ the performance of the FR35 and blends it seamlessly with the thunderous twin 265mm isobaric bass units.

The FR35 internal passive crossover is still ‘in-circuit’ when used as part of a FR2035 system. The visible jumper cables deliver power from the FR20 to the same terminals on the FR35 as used when enjoying them ‘solo’.

Specifications

• Impedance: Minimum of 4 Ohms. Nominal of 6 Ohms
• Frequency response in room: 55Hz – 19Khz in a typical room of medium size with speakers located approximately 0.5 metres from the rear wall. The sealed box low order roll off greatly assists with this small speaker sounding surprisingly large.
• Power Input: For use with amplifiers between 30 Watts RMS and 150Watts RMS
• Bass Midrange Driver: 150mm poly hybrid cone with cast aluminium frame and high power motor assembly. Mounted on an acoustically isolated front baffle for minimal vibration interaction with the main enclosure.
• Tweeter: 20mm soft textile dome – neodymium magnet assembly – very low resonant frequency – Made in Denmark by Scanspeak.
• Cabinet finish: Your choice of real wood Maple or Walnut. Premium satin clear coat.
• Grilles: Optional
• Dimensions: 304mm high (including spikes) x 190mm wide x 250mm deep including height of binding posts.
• Weight: 6kgs each.
• Carton sizes: 1 box – 60cm L x 40cm W x 24cm H
• Carton weight: 14kgs 1 box
• Accessories: Rubber feet
• Designed and manufactured in Australia.
• Warranty – All Dellichord loudspeakers carry a 5 year manufacturers warranty covering the product as per normal warranty terms. A manufacturer’s warranty warrants against defects that have occurred during manufacturing. The warranty does not cover misuse, damage, incorrect wiring or system configuration.