![]() Of course, each amp / speaker pairing had its own voice but as I said up front, they were all musical voices. ![]() The ELACs did this trick really well and whats more they presented a very nicely balanced musical picture with every amp combo. Get them properly setup in your room, or Barn, and music appears to flow from.everywhere but the speakers. One thing about nearly every small stand mount speaker, like the ELACs, is they can disappear like nobody’s business. no? The ELACs are easy to listen to because they are well balanced-bass doesn’t boom, treble doesn’t squeak or squeal or bite (it’s no Lowther!), and the two drivers act as one. I’m temped to say they are easy to listen to but that may be misleading since some people equate easy to listen to with being bad. What is fancy is their ability to play music without any bumps, bruises, or bite. The little ELACs are a two-way front-ported bass reflex design using a 1″ cloth dome tweeter and 5-1/4″ Aramid fiber woofer in your basic black MDF cabinet wrapped in black ash vinyl. Don’t get me wrong, the Quad 57s are among my favorite speakers but they need care and feeding to get them to sing. Choose the wrong amp here and you’ll get mush or a snake bite. Some speakers are much pickier about their mates, the most extreme examples being the original Quad 57 and any Lowther-based speaker. It also makes a review easier to write since consistency allows me to be more emphatic about performance in general. ![]() To my mind this is the most important trait of any speaker. Each amp/speaker pairing offered different interpretations of music but they were all enjoyable and in no way hindered my ability to connect. Having listened to the Debut’s for months using the PS Audio Sprout (see review), Quad VA-One (see review), NAD D 3020 V2 (see review), and my Leben CS600, I can tell you that the ELACs adapt to their mate extremely well. The ELAC Debut 2.0 B5.2 offer up a picture of music that is limited only by physics and our ability to connect with music. To fail at this is akin to falling in love with a favorite actor to the extent that we can longer love real people. The trick is one of balance-the deeper we get into the quality of the experience should never impair our ability to connect to the source, regardless of quality. Of course, the more we do something, the more the quality of the experience matters. In the long run, we, as listeners, are tasked with the glorious job of listening to and enjoying music. Our job is certainly not to offer an ongoing critique of screen quality or sound quality. Which leads me to perhaps the most important question in all of hifi-What is our job as listeners? To my mind, our job as listeners is to connect to the music, the same job we have as movie watchers. The same holds for listening to music for pleasure. That’s because the movie isn’t taking place on the screen, it’s running in my head. That being the case, once a movie begins and I connect to it, the screen disappears completely. This has been the case for many decades and in all that time the screen I watch movies on has changed in size and quality.a lot. Let me explain, analogously, how I operate-I love watching movies and I watch a lot of them. I’ve been playing with the ELAC Debut 2.0 B5.2 speakers for months, on and off, with a variety of amplifiers and they are a delight to listen through. In Barn for Review: Perlisten S5t Tower SpeakersĪre sins of omission really sins when it comes to hifi? The correct answer is “No”. Peacocks, Peonies, and the Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC: Beauty Comes In Many Guises In Barn for Review: totaldac d1-unity DAC Review: Auralic ARIES G1.1 Wireless Streaming Transporter SME Announces 5 New MK2 Series TurntablesĪlbum of the Week: Kali Malone | Does Spring Hide Its Joy Review: Audia Flight FLS 10 Integrated Amplifier In Barn for Review: Cocktail Audio X45Pro Streamer/DAC/CD Player/Ripper/Server/Tuner/PreampĪlbum of the Week: Shabaka and the Ancestors | We Are Sent Here By History In Barn for Review: Dynaudio Contour 60i Floorstanding Loudspeakers Review: Sonner Audio Legato Duo Floorstanding Loudspeakers
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