ELAC speakers are stunning, no matter if Rolf Jahnke or Andrew Jones designed them...and they have a medium range, believe me...but they deserved much better amps than this Vitus....Trigon, Dartzeel, or for the maximum, the unmatched DNM from Denis Morecroft. ;-) And, please, give them DNM solid core speaker cables... Anyway, beside the fact, that since 25 years ago I can enjoy music reproduction only with my several models of the legendary Rehdéko full range speakers, because my concert visits are the only referance for me - old JBL horns and Studio Monitors like the 4355 and Western Electric`s I can also accept - if it comes to conventional Hifi speakers, only ELAC speakers find my agreement - the first I owned was the 135-II in the 80s with paper cones, and then the 515, finally the BS 243 Limited Editon.
@@JG-gg9wk my 5 inch woofer doesn't sound like the most detailed anymore but I definitely know my 15 inch subwoofer has the best bass sound in the world and when I was testing my subwoofer my neighbors was making a hooting sound so my neighbors must think my subwoofer has the best sound in the world as well
I pay elixir a steel strings on my guitar everyday and that system sounds nothing like music. Everything is metallic not just the guitar. Why do all audiophiles listen to female vocalists. I think they are a bunch of lonely people
Not sure, the sound seems too boxy and metallic compared to Overnight Sensations or even budget grade VEF Radiotehnika RRR when listening on cheap Senheiser HD415. Even Monitor Audio R250 if I remember correctly had less enclosure resonance than some KEF speakers which seemed to sound in similar way to these playing some acoustic guitar when listening in person.
These 243.2 are old ones. Now they have the 243.3 and the 244.3 (this one has the bigger woofer). But the 400 series and now Vela are even better. I run 13 speakers of the 400 series in a dolby atmos and auro 3d setup. A pair of FS 409 as Front, a pair of FS 407 as Rear, 2 x CC 400 as Center and Hight Center, 2 pairs of BS 403 and 3 WS 1665 for the ceiling. It is absolutely awsome, when you give them enough power. The newest line now of the 400 series is "Vela".
im trying to figure out if i want these, or the lsx's... For someone just getting into the HIFI realm (Coming from Iems, sub 100$ ones) should I go kef? I love soundstage, imagining, and have a subwoofer already so bass doesnt matter to me for these so far.
Surely having all those other speakers around in the same room are acting as passive radiators and significantly affecting the sound of the active speaker? In my room I have an acoustic guitar and when I cough I can hear the guitar reverberating in response to the sound wave! so the effect of these other speakers in the room must 'colour' the sound of the speaker being auditioned/recorded.
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