ELAC is a German brand that has been in business for 70yrs or more, making record-players in the old days & recently loudspeakers.

Since around 2015, respected loudspeaker designer Andrew Jones (formerly of KEf & TAD) has been designing ranges of loudspeaker at ELAC.

ELAC have been attracting attention especially for their entry-level, value-for-money Debut Series loudspeaker designs:

" Who cares what they cost? Forget about recommending them to only your non-audiophile friends. Elac Americas' new Debut B6 loudspeaker is an extremely competent audiophile design that is more musical and concise than any other speaker I've heard that costs less than $1000/pair. "
( www.stereophile.com/content/elac-debut-b6-loudspeaker )

ELAC B6.2 - US$299 (NZ$699)






(SOUNDGROUP distribute ELAC in NZ.)

DarkLantern blog - darklanternforowen.wordpress.com

the man is a living legend, designing state of the art TADs and also great sounding, affordable designs for pioneer, elac et al.

last year i bought a pair of elac dolby atmos speakers and they are superb in their intended application.

I also have some ELAC B6s (Mk1) in a secondary system
You should hear 'em on the end of my Ecofan Valve amps set-up...  

"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]

This is a pretty thorough review of the updated but still inexpensive ELAC B6.2 - from pretty much all angles - compared with the original B6, different user viewpoints, the audiophile standpoint, partnered with inexpensive or used with much more costly gear, some caveats....

Zero Fidelity guy:

"...well-rounded & balanced performance... I find it difficult to pick them apart.... Andrew Jones did a great job of building this great all-round loudspeaker."

DarkLantern blog - darklanternforowen.wordpress.com

Pioneer/ TAD were a bit silly to let Mr Jones get away...

Balanced, competent, inoffensive - sounds rather British

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And what a good thing that is...

Jan 11, 2019 9:48:17 GMT 12 andrewp said:

Pioneer/ TAD were a bit silly to let Mr Jones get away...

Pioneer was undergoing some massive financial issues (purchased by Onkyo, who were in-turn owned by the Gibson group... who in turn took on MASSIVE debt to buy consumer brands, but then struggled after designing terrible self-tuning guitars...

Long story short, no cash left @ Pioneer at that point, so Mr Jones moved on.

Elac are an interesting beast, Germany company with a British designer based in the States.

He's finally designing with their Jet tweeter, will be interesting to listen to as his other Elac projects have mainly been based around soft dome versions.