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Listening Room

oes the name ring a bell?

Mention ELAC and we

think of turntables of long

ago, or more recently of

phono cartridges. Indeed, ELAC (the

name is a contraction of Electroacustic)

was the ﬁrst to make a relatively inex-

pensive phono cartridge with a Van den

Hul proﬁled stylus. That turned out not

to be a great idea, but its heart was in the

right place.

And now ELAC has brought out the

ﬁrst inexpensive speaker with a Heil

tweeter. Not all the company’s speakers

are this size or this price either, but once

again its heart is in the right place. Oskar

Heil’s famous tweeter has long been

admired for its exemplary smoothness,

and indeed for the lack of peakiness

that is found in nearly all conventional

tweeters.

So where have we seen it before?

Well, the Oskar Aulos, a smallish

speaker with a similar tweeter was on

the cover of UHF No. 57. And its larger

brother, the Kithara, was reviewed in

issue No. 59. Subsequently Albert pur-

chased it. But none of these speakers cost

as little as this one. The ﬁnish, designed

for modern decors, belies the cost, as do

of course the drivers used. The woofer

is a sandwich of paper and aluminum.

And the “JET” tweeter is ELAC’s own

version of Oskar Heil’s “Air Motion

Transformer.” From 2.8 kHz up it does

the heavy lifting.

We set the speakers up on our Foun-

dation stands and connected them to our

Alpha system. It took very little ﬁddling

with the placement before we were happy

with the image and the balance. The

speakers come with foam “muffs” that

can be placed in the rear port for place-

ment close to a wall, but we didn’t use

them.

We opened the session with the

SACD version of the famed Proprius

choral recording, Now the Green Blade

Riseth (PRSACD9093). We’ve heard

both the male and female voices sound

hideous on speakers far more expen-

sive than these, and we were pleased

to note that the ELACs reproduced

them pleasantly. We were hoping for

great smoothness in the highs from the

famous tweeter, and we got it, except

for…

Except for what? Do check out the

full version of this review in the print

or electronic version.

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Elac 204

Brand/model: ELAC 204.2

Price: C$1650

Size (HWD): 33 x 20 x 28.5 cm

Sensitivity: 88 dB

Impedance (claimed): 4 ohms

Most liked: Deliciously smooth highs

Least liked: It’s a little speaker,

remember?

Verdict: A high end that’s really high

end

Summing it up…

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