Elac Carina BS243.4 Review (Bookshelf Speaker)

[Roland68]

Thanks for getting back with suggestions! I am not sure I am tracking though- what do you mean by "Temporarily place a speaker on 4 similarly high pipe sections, aluminum, brass or similar, and see if it behaves in the same way."

I don't have pipe available to do this

You can also do it differently. On one side you put the Carina directly on the table, on the other side on the isoacustics stand.
Then get some board (cutting board or something similar) of the right size and place it between the isoacustics stand and the speaker. Then you can hear what's happening.

 

[yllanos]

Hi.

I got mine in today. I have to wait until tonight to start some listening but I already set them up.

I had been running the signal from dac to sb-1000 first via RCA and then passing through high pass filter to Carina. The filter is set to 80Hz. Tried dac directly to Carina and am super pleased to hear the bass they are capable of. I prefer having the the full sound signature in front of me as opposed to the bass coming from below the desk exclusively. If only I could set the high pass filter at say ~50Hz instead so I could get more out of Carina without losing the sub bass from sb-1000...

Get a miniDSP device, you will be able to adjust crossovers and more as you please. I own miniDSP SHD Studio and it works very well.

 

[Daniel4IEM]

Hi.

I got mine in today. I have to wait until tonight to start some listening but I already set them up.

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Get a miniDSP device, you will be able to adjust crossovers and more as you please. I own miniDSP SHD Studio and it works very well.

Congrats!!! Excited to hear your impressions.
Good suggestion to add external crossover. Excited to look into miniDSP, etc.

Couldn’t I also just split the signal coming out of dac and send one to sub and one to speaker amp?

 

[DMill]

Hi.

I got mine in today. I have to wait until tonight to start some listening but I already set them up.

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Get a miniDSP device, you will be able to adjust crossovers and more as you please. I own miniDSP SHD Studio and it works very well.

I like mine a lot. They are power hungry little buggers. I have mine hooked up to a Yamaha RN-1000a (100w) with a sub and if I want to blast it I have to turn it up pretty good.

 

[yllanos]

Congrats!!! Excited to hear your impressions.
Good suggestion to add external crossover. Excited to look into miniDSP, etc.

Couldn’t I also just split the signal coming out of dac and send one to sub and one to speaker amp?

I will give some impressions in a few days. There is a local holiday coming up next monday so this will be a music-intense and long weekend for me. I did try them out quickly just to check everything is in working order and I am very optimistic. Gotta say though, they look way way better in person than on pictures IMO. Just don't expect too much science on my listening impressions. If you are expecting that, please just confidently skip my next comment in a few days lol.

Yes, but since A6 lacks a bass management feature, you will be sending a full range signal to all outputs. On sub that's not an issue as you can do a low pass. but your speakers will receive full range, which may or may not be what you want

I like mine a lot. They are power hungry little buggers. I have mine hooked up to a Yamaha RN-1000a (100w) with a sub and if I want to blast it I have to turn it up pretty good.

I don't think I have to worry about power. I am using this:

AUDIOPHONICS AP300-S500NC Power Amplifier NCore NC502MP

The Audiophonics AP300-S500NC is a stereo amplifier based on a Hypex Ncore NC502MP amplifier module. It is ideal for providing a significant power reserve (2x500W @ 4Ω) without sacrificing sound reproduction quality.

www.audiophonics.fr

 

[Roland68]

I like mine a lot. They are power hungry little buggers. I have mine hooked up to a Yamaha RN-1000a (100w) with a sub and if I want to blast it I have to turn it up pretty good.

But that doesn't mean anything unless you know the output voltage of the source device.
What source device are you using?