Fisher XP-9C

The Fisher XP-9C is a four-way bookshelf speaker system. Fisher marketed it hard in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Period advertising boasted that it was “the only speaker system to incorporate a 15-inch woofer in an enclosure measuring only 27½ × 16¼ × 13 inches deep” (HiFi/Stereo, November 1969, p.25). The woofer was matched with two 5-inch midrange drivers and two 1½-inch dome-type tweeters - one for the lower treble, one for the upper - for a total of five drivers.

Fisher’s own copy claimed the XP-9C was “ahead in the race for bass.” It credited the clean low end to sharp-cutoff (12 dB/octave) crossover networks instead of simple roll-off filters (High Fidelity, December 1969, p.103). The lower-midrange drivers handed off to a hemispherical dome tweeter at 1,200 Hz. The original list price was $199.95. The system was also offered in bundled packages, for instance paired with the Fisher 701 four-channel receiver (High Fidelity, June 1971, p.5, where the speakers were listed at $219.95 each).

The XP-9C is not listed in the Fisher XP series index alongside the XP-9, XP-7, and others. Surviving documentation doesn't say whether it was a revision of the XP-9 or a distinct variant. What is known comes almost entirely from magazine ads and brief review snippets, such as the ad in HiFI/Stereo (November 1969, p.25), which gives the dimensions and driver configuration.