#Elac debut reference vs unifi reference drivers

Two things make me happy: audio products that are well engineered and money. I am happy to give my strongest recommendation for ELAC DBR-62.Īs always, questions, comments, recommendations, etc. So save up if you have to but don't settle for anything less than this. And no fussiness with placement in room either. They design won't sound sexy on paper but boy does it sound good in person.

Optimized 2-way system like this outperforms them all.

#Elac debut reference vs unifi reference drivers

Message to Andrew: please stop messing with coaxial drivers and such. I was sad to stop listening to it to type this review! It is that good. It is 'high-end' sound on a budget with little to apologize for. It is 'Andrew Jones' as I expected but had been missing up to now. The ELAC DBR-62 objectively and subjectively meets and exceeds my expectations. Above that, none is needed but you are welcome to try some to taste (broad, low-Q EQ). There is enough bass out of this speaker to energize that mode so be sure to have some means of EQ for your bass frequencies. Note that the only EQ I used was for the 200 bass mode in my room. I went through some 20 to 30 reference tracks and every one, without exception sounded amazing! With some speakers I have to hunt to find a good sounding track or two. At extremely high levels (ear bleeding) I could hear some resonances but back off a bit and you were invited to incredible performance. Mind you, there was 1000 watts on tap to drive it but still, the speaker showed little sign of stress. Despite use of a single speaker in my testing, it could fill my massive space with plenty of powerful low energy. So it looks like the back is resonating and causing interference pattern with the front wave.Īh, what joy! Just put the ELAC DBR-62 on the stand and with no fiddling/adjusting, etc.

This so called spinorama shows us just about everything we need to know about the speaker with respect to tonality and some flaws: I also doubled the drive voltage (for spinorama) to overcome low frequency noise in my setting.Īll measurements are with no grill and on tweeter axis.Īcoustic measurements can be grouped in a way that can be perceptually analyzed to determine how good a speaker can be used. I am also using averaging to lower noise in bass frequencies. Over 700 measurement points were used to assure high precision in higher frequencies, resulting in well under 1% error. In a nutshell, the measurements show the actual sound coming out of the speaker independent of the room.Īll measurements are reference to tweeter axis with the grill removed. Both of these factors enable testing in ordinary rooms yet results that can be more accurate than anechoic chamber. It also measures the speaker at close distance ('near-field') which sharply reduces the impact of room noise. This is a robotic measurement system that analyzes the speaker all around and is able (using advanced mathematics and dual scan) to subtract room reflections (so where I measure it doesn't matter). Measurements that you are about to see were performed using the Klippel Near-field Scanner (NFS). Will the DBR-62 be an exception? Let's find out. So far my reviews of other Andrew Jones speakers has not resulted in any star performers. It comes with a gray patterned grill which can hide the drivers if you like. Overall, it is a very modern take on speaker design which I like. The grill on the tweeter is a bit out of place in my mind but not overly so. I really like the baffle, the slot port and woofer.