Indeed, at AXPONA last year, good memory. Hence the reason I said to take my comments with grain of salt (which goes for me also!). You cannot make a final judgement with show auditions, unless of course you have been to more than one show and heard same speakers, a bit more justified in that case. But still, always try for extensive session at dealer or in home demo if at all possible prior to final decision
Reading between the lines here, I’m pretty certain MKR knows a fair amount about the timeline on his top options.
Thanks for the kind words, I really do appreciate. And indeed, I could never write for one of the audiophool mags, wouldn’t be able to sleep at night, and if I did sleep, it’s probably because I told the truth and would be fired quickly.Indeed. Exceptionally well done. But to write for a commercial audio magazine he would need to learn the fine art of raving about speakers he doesn’t care for, and leaving clues in between the lines that say “run away”.
Thank you sir … I would likely be shown the door quickly at Stereophile, just after I poo poo’ed their beloved WilsonsExcellent report
You should write for Stereophile or something
That would be accurate
No need to worry, but I appreciate your concern
… in reality my top choices do exist in the sense of the attributes that I value most. But sure, who knows what may be over the horizon, you could say same for all choices in life. But at some point it must end as I am ready to start enjoying some music and movies!
I am really hoping it's a floor-stander with more drivers - deeper bass and higher SPLs might be enough to make it unbeatable at ANY price.
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Yes sir, I sure did, running cardioid with force cancellation
I hadn’t heard much either, but given the performance, I expect will be nearing more about them going forward. Would be great for Amir or Erin to get these to measure. As to floorstanders, I am sure will be very good also, with more output ability for larger rooms.
Correct, should have mentioned that
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Yup, well aware of this, and I cannot explain. Very poor measurement no doubt about it, and should be very audible, which I certainly did not hear in my short time at the show. I was a bit off axis though so maybe part of the explanation? Anyway, simple to say my listening experience does not match what I heard, and I have no explanation. Couple possibilities can think of … One, ELAC rep stated this was newer version and maybe they made some changes? Second, maybe some EQ was implemented? Or … maybe the measurement is wrong (though unlikely)? I was actually not aware of these measurements until few days ago, as I was also curious. If I had known I certainly would have asked the rep about them. Ironic thing is these measurements better represent the very unpleasant Borresen monitors I heard rather than the ELACsElac concentro S503 bookshelf
Elac launched an expensive speaker I'm not sure about his price. 3 way coaxial but with jet driver from elac :p 2 mar 2022
Doesn’t listen to what he (I assume you mean Soundfield) builds? Sorry, not following. But indeed, these were put together at last minute as the cabinets were very late to arrive, hence reason I stated they were prototypes (which they certainly are, work in progress). Note that first video is mostly a bunch of audiophoolery nonsense, from far from objective folks, take it all with a grain of salt. I cringed especially as soon as I heard hotel power being an issue (so of course you then need kilobuck power conditioning) and “x” cables made a huge difference
