Cool stuff from Elac. Unexpected.
Glass reflections, unfortunately.
Martin dug one of these up recently.
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Cool stuff from Elac. Unexpected.
Glass reflections, unfortunately.
Martin dug one of these up recently.
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Location: Bristol
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I'm Justin.
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I'm Justin.
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A lot of the design of this stuff makes me laugh out loud, but that Elac Rubiks Cube sub is a master stroke!
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Just listened to drums on the big Gobels.
Presented as being very fast, as drums are.
Trouble is I have heard these speakers quite a few times, and fast they are NOT.
They do sound very pleasant, though, if very samey, across a lot of stuff.
Gonna check it out when I get back. Snap taken from the presenter's tablet after I asked nicely, and not after I told him the speakers didn't have the speed to do it justice, LOL.
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I owned MLs for 17 years.
These Neoliths are sounding absolutely killer with the EMM Labs setup.
Way better than my system even has a hope of.
Top. And better than the last time I heard a pair.
Then the panels go wrong... and they will need replacing after a few years. Don't believe otherwise.
Another flaw is the bass only emanates from the bottom of the speaker leaving the mid/top sounding lean height wise, if that makes sense.
Still awesome, though.
But as I left they played something that made my last criticism stick very firmly in my head, triggering memory neurons of past times.
It's not something I want to go back to. Especially at 130K Euros a pair.
Last edited by User211; 06-06-2026 at 12:41.
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The combination of panel drive units (regardless of whether they are electrostatic or magnetic ribbon type) with moving coil drivers can never be successful, for reasons of polar distribution: panel drive units have a dipole distribution, moving coil speakers in an enclosure have a monopole distribution.Originally Posted by User211
I owned MLs for 17 years.
These Neoliths are sounding absolutely killer with the EMM Labs setup.
Way better than my system even has a hope of.
Top. And better than the last time I heard a pair.
Then the panels go wrong... and they will need replacing after a few years. Don't believe otherwise.
It didn't work way back in the late '60s with the Bowers & Wilkins DM70, and it doesn't work now.
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They have front and rear firing bass units to make them dipole like. The biggest issue is the one I described, but that's still really due to mixing driver tech.
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Can you see if you can get a listen to the new Wharfedale Rosedales?
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TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > Troels Gravesen Faital 3WC-15.
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