A completely new development, the BS 63 by ELAC Despite the visual similarity with the Canton-bass is their 17er completely different way: Not drawn from a position of aluminum, but from a bonded sandwich - paper funnel, aluminum bowl and Kapton® voice coil carrier - consists of the movable part of the chassis. This construct is a plastic basket in the form required to avoid compression of slim build and rank, will be even deeper into the volume of the compact box last.

The dome sits behind bars, and has a star shaped heat sink. The plastic basket of the bass has optimized air flow.

As Canton also ELAC tweeter with a lighter sound leadership, the dispersion of the fabric dome in the sensitive area of 2.3 to 6 kilohertz gently to the cone should adjust. The vote of the box is the principle of performance based on optimized sound - which ultimately means nothing other than that the speaker with increasing frequency as no discontinuities between the axle and on the Vollraum in the performance will be delivered. In this calculation is also a form of housing: The angeschrägten clear edge, especially in the vicinity of the tweeter provide a reflexionsärmere diffraction, and the heights of their way to pave the area.

Hearing test

The level of play for 400 euro - so far it was the KEF iQ 3 (AUDIO 4 / 06). They also knew that in the first Hörtestrunde to say: at Kaiser Haydn Quartet (Alban Berg Quartet, Teldec), with its intimate differentiation as well as in the final scene of Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" (Sawallisch, EMI), with its sonorous choral sound and the wide area.

An almost unbelievable to Strauß overtones, sound mixing and clean durchhörbaren details revealed the ELAC, however, even with excessive discipline and a penchant for the absolutely pathetic Slimness intentioned work approached.

Pop & Rock

With the change of musical direction changed in the hierarchy: The BS 63 is not quite reached the authority and richness of bass Nubert, but she moved dynamically equal and surpassed with a lightning-bright sound splendor are sometimes a bit strong Nubert. This was the case when the rear wall, or an additional, very deep as the separate subwoofer Velodyne SPL 1200 R (AUDIO 4 / 07) in the lowest area could help.

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