While I was researching the B6, I also saw other people's comments. In fact, Jones may be the only person to see two of his speakerstwo really different speakersreviewed in the same issue of Stereophile: the TAD Evolution One ($29,800/pair) and the Pioneer SP-BS22-LR ($129.99/pair). (I got the feeling that this is a reboot for the German company's operation in the US.) And I learned that, before going to work for Elac, Jones designed speakers for KEF, Infinity, and Pioneer/TAD. I learned that these speakers were conceived at Elac's new design center in southern California. "What magazine do you write for?" I told him I was a cub reporter at Stereophile and handed him my card.īy the time I received my review pair, I'd read everything I could find on the Web about the Elac Debut series. After a long silence, his smile reappeared. Now he paused, a serious quizzical expression on his face, and studied me closely.
ELAC B6 SERIES
I also had an intuition that the diamond of the Debut series might be the slightly larger B6 ($279.99/pair), and I asked designer Andrew Jones if I could review it. But I didn't feel that amazingness that everyone else seemed to feel. Nothing annoying jumped out to bite my ears. People kept asking me, "Herbwhat'd you think of the Elacs?" My polite response was always, "I'm glad I'm not in the business of making $1000/pair speakers." I'd heard for myself how the Debut B5s did all the audiophile-checklist stuff: Bass, midrange, trebleall seemed pretty balanced. In the halls, people were raving: "Did you hear Andrew Jones's new speaker?" Show bloggers went crazy.
I was impressedbut maybe not as impressed as everyone else in the room seemed to be. So I walked to Elac's room and listened to the Debut B5 bookshelf speakers ($229.99/pair). "Elac's room is making the best sound at the show," they said.Įlac? I thought. The first I heard about Elac's new Debut line of speakers was from two 12-year-olds at T.H.E.
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