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ELAC FS 57 - Stereo & Video (Russia) review

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11.2007

ELAC FS57     10400 rub.


►Merits: the elegant, accurate, very pleasant sounding

► Deficiences: the scarcity of power engineering of the sound


Construction

Model FS 57 of the 50th series at the given moment appears most accessible [napolnikom] from the entire production ELAC. This is phase-inverter type two-band acoustic system. Drivers are placed according to the diagram Of d'Appolito. The woven cupola 25- mm of the tweeter is covered by metallic shielding lattice. The tweeter is equipped with powerful neodymium magnet and radiator for the best heat withdrawal. In its series German company ELAC decided to go away from the use of traditional diffusers of the type “sandwich” aluminium-paper. The diffusers 145- mm of the [SCh] dynamic loudspeakers of this model are made from paper. For an increase in the power input, the base of voice coil is made from Kapton. Two ports of phase inverter are carried out to the rear wall. Only small niche with the pair of screw terminals is located below. Simple rectangular [podium] rests on the adjustable shafts.

Sound

Very beautiful upper register in this model: it plastic, elegant, as if lace. Notes in the upper octaves of piano, triangle in the orchestra, [klavesin], violin, plates and small brushes in the chamber jazz composition - silver and pearls model plays in the open manner, sonic scene is advanced forward. The sound is light, is clean, elegant, sharply [artikulirovannyy], as a whole very pleasant for the rumor. Characterizing musical disposition ELAC, let us note light difference in the transfer of lower, average and high registers, which is undoubtedly urgent not for all listeners and not for any musical records. Bass in German acoustics is strict, is dryish, clear, intonation determined. General power engineering of sound is not the highest. A good dynamic resource will make it possible “to yield to heat”, but in this case sounding can lose the part of its fascination. Musical vertical line in the transfer ELAC is clear, melodic voices, timbre paints are transferred naturally and very clearly.


Prepared according to the journal “Stereo & Video”, November 2007. ( www.stereo.ru )

 

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