- 20 May 2009
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ELAC America's Andrew Jones demos his latest speaker
The Uni-Fi series consists of a bookshelf (UB5), a Floorstanding (UF5) and a center channel speaker (UC5).
Each model has incredible performance for speakers at their price points. The Uni-Fi Series is based on their Debut Line of speakers.
The most significant changes being the addition of a newly designed 4" concentric driver consisting of a 4" aluminum midrange and 1" soft dome tweeter.
Elac claims that by mounting the tweeter at the center of the midrange driver the audio reproduced is perceived as coming from the same point in space.
This results in improved directivity throughout the crossover region and better off-axis frequency response. Bass is handled by a newly developed 5,25" aluminum woofer.
In the demo room, we found a single pair of Elac Uni-Fi UB5 bookshelf speakers in a 2.0 configuration.
Many designers would have shown the bookshelf speakers with an accompanying subwoofer to fill out the bottom end,
perhaps the Elac S10EQ ($500), or at the least, gone with a pair of the bigger UF5 towers. It takes a lot of confidence to try to impress
half-a-dozen critical listeners in a 500 square foot room with a $500 pair of bookshelf speakers.
The demo began with a little introduction from Andrew Jones describing why he designed these speakers.
You can hear something similar to that, and much, much more in our extended video review with Andrew embedded above
and available on our YouTube channel. The first track was dominated by a female vocal and guitar played in a percussive style.
The track presented a clear midrange, detailed high frequencies, and broad image in the room which had a little absorption
at the sidewall first reflection points. That said, we couldn't get a sense of the low-frequency impact of the speakers
because the thumped guitar, while it sound quite weighty, also utilized much of the UB5's sufficient midrange.
The second track came up, almost identically instrumented with the same percussive guitar, but with a male voice.
Again, clean, detailed, and spacious reproduction, but no way to accurately judge the low-end of these speakers.
We started getting suspicious; was Andrew avoiding demo tracks with any real low-end to hide a deficiency in the speaker design.
We shouldn't have worried. The next track was by Canadian EDM star deadmau5, and featured copious amount of low bass.
As soon as the first low synth swelled out, and the low percussion kicked in, the room went giddy.
These modest bookshelves were filling the room with clean, musical, plentiful bass in a way that was expected in a set of
full-sized towers, but very uncommon in $500 bookshelves. People started giggling, taking turns offering up
the single sweet-spot in the front of the room, and asking how they could get a pair.
With a pricepoint of just $500 for the UB5 bookshelf, $1000 for the UF5 floorstanding, and $350 for the UC5 center channel
it won't be a issue of "IF" we do a full review on these, but "When".
The Uni-Fi Series of speakers will be available in Q2 of 2016.
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