PEN-65T Black

The Rockville PEN-65T is a 6.5" two-way hanging pendant speaker built for distributed audio installations in restaurants, hotels, retail spaces, offices, and similar commercial environments. It supports 70V, 100V, and 8 ohm operation, so it fits into virtually any existing distributed audio system without adaptation. The cabinet is ABS injection-molded, finished in black, and ships with an eyelet hanging bracket for suspended ceiling installation. Each speaker weighs 6 lbs and measures 8.7" × 9.4".

The driver complement is a 6.5" polypropylene cone woofer with foam surround paired with a 13mm PEI dome tweeter, covering 56Hz to 20kHz with 87dB sensitivity. Dispersion is 140° horizontal by 140° vertical at 1 meter, which gives pendant-mounted units wide, even coverage below the hang point — useful in dining rooms and open retail floors where listeners are spread across the space. Directivity index is 3.6dB. Wiring connects via detachable euro block terminals, which simplify termination and replacement compared to bare-wire spring clips.

The built-in transformer supports four tap settings on 70V (20W, 10W, 5W, 2.5W) and three on 100V (20W, 10W, 5W). In 8 ohm mode, power handling is 45W RMS. Tap selection lets you control how much of the amplifier’s output each speaker draws, which is how zone-level volume differences get set in a distributed system — bar speakers tapped at 20W, dining room at 10W, hallway at 5W, all running off the same amplifier without a mixer or attenuator per zone.

For anyone new to 70V systems: the standard is designed for multi-speaker commercial installs where running low-impedance 8 ohm speakers in parallel would create impedance matching problems at scale. With 70V, you simply total the wattage of all speakers at their selected taps and size the amplifier to exceed that figure by 15–20%. Wiring is a single daisy-chain or home-run — all positive terminals to the amp’s positive 70V output, all negatives to the amp’s negative terminal. There’s no impedance calculation, and you can mix pendant speakers with ceiling speakers, wall speakers, and subwoofers on the same line as long as they’re all 70V-rated.

Specifications

• Woofer: 6.5" polypropylene cone, foam surround, 1.5" voice coil

• Tweeter: 13mm PEI dome

• Frequency Response: 56Hz–20kHz

• Sensitivity: 87dB

• Dispersion: 140° H × 140° V (@ 1m)

• Directivity Index: 3.6dB

• 8Ω RMS Power Handling: 45W

• 70V Taps: 20W / 10W / 5W / 2.5W

• 100V Taps: 20W / 10W / 5W

• Terminals: Detachable euro block

• Cabinet: ABS injection-molded