With high-tech chassis and clever ideas has created a specialist from the Baltic Sea coast a dream speaker.

Very clear: The sensation of Elacs brand new FS 608-stander 4Pi is its 360-degree ribbon. But the Kiel also have a fantastic job below their extraordinären tweeter done.

"... should ... Elacs flagship Front.'s heat a car that would" Vorsprung durch Technik "dranstehen."

"Of course, this will also generate noise that air through membranes is set in motion. But this is done in such a perfect way that the FS 608-4Pi to some not so old pit ancestors behaves like a S-Class to Ford's Model T. "

"When you first Hörcheck with the visually aware technoid speaker held the first surprise: The slim, in" Silver Shadow "lacquered box with a cap on top of the characteristic sounds extremely clean and crisp, but not the least bit artificial or analytically. .... The power is over the entire tonal spectrum perfectly balanced. There's one right away astounded.'s a heat sündteurer boxes exotic, you would say: "Behold!" But, "Huhu, folks," looks times after Kiel. ELAC's has also fully on it. "

"The sonic wonders, the Schleswig-Holstein with the FS 608-4Pi on the bottom plate has lodged serious, sober hiding behind technology. Challenging are the two 18-inch woofer made .... Both have the familiar stiff, lightweight aluminum-paper sandwich membrane of the North Germans, and they were for use in the FS 608-4Pi optimized. A particularly resistant Kapton coil-makers gives this post also hearty strokes. For that they do not run into the void, responsible Double stronger magnet, which also raises the efficiency. In conjunction with the exact custom Reflexöffnug developed a bass, one on the drum skins can melt. smoothly, he divided on the root that he is immensely rich shading, gnarled, agile and yet with the right portion of wealth and melting blessed. "

"From a kilohertz over a 37-millimeter Seidenkalotte ... Flink homogeneous and extends the system up to 4000 hertz up, it impresses through tonal perfection and inconspicuousness. Can a chassis a greater compliment?"

"Yes, and then he, who is currently greatest pride of the northern lights, the new 4Pi tweeter, the principle is already 20 years ago was born and the one whose specialty is that he sounds evenly horizontally abstrahlt all directions. This happens to the other using a narrow strip of aluminum in the original about 30 centimeters long and through its edge desired length, stability and elasticity for high amplitude receives. .... strong drive in the form of neodymium-magnet rings. Are exactly those parts which, if they accidentally aneinandergeraten, only Arnold Schwarzenegger can be separated again. Understood that such a system in the highest tones with effortless ease from the membrane shakes. .... That the best tweeter heard what I am in this field ever heard has come. Dust Fine resolution is paired with rudimentary loose momentum and clarity without a fantastic show etiquette. "

"With this Höchtöner from which not a single failure to hear sound and its effectiveness in comparison to the predecessor model by five decibels could be increased - in Hi-sector dimension - a ... .... Stipulates HiFi prejudice that around shining Tweeter a huge tend blasenartiges ethereal sound image with prolixity, but lower order, so we can give you in terms of the lighthouse with the bright brains in this calm. .... No huge cloud of sound, ... but simply a breadth and depth defined three-dimensional In the meticulously ordered spectrum, in which the speaker maximum disappear as yet untraceable in connection with other first-class designs. "

"Those who are against the FS 608-4Pi, and only a little has Hörerfahrung, will immediately give the impression of great maturity and consistency sophisticated receive. Erkenntis To that Kiel pit the best representatives of their class call's need not last long."

"In our numerous checks also proved that even outside the listening area close to highs not abfielen, and one from well outside diagonally into the spatial spectrum could hear it. It works with conventional Dome also good, but not so perfect how astute at Elacs round spotlight ".

Conclusion:

"The class just yet affordable speaker has a more strong candidates, which also points in the sound and technique character sets. And this is not a hollow phrase."

"A high-end" lighthouse "of the Baltic Sea coast, the audiophile community the way. The FS 608-4Pi combined convincing homogeneity with realistic space mapping and robust foundation. Premium processing. Four stars!"

"The ELAC scopes far enough in the bass down and with still solid level. ... Perfect omnidirectional behavior of the 4Pi tweeter. The step response shows almost no time delay between the drivers and no resonance. For a three-way system is absolutely amazing."

Hidden values

"Elacs FS 608-4Pi has more to offer than a nice facade.

The approximately 35 kilogram weight of the FS 608-4Pi do not come by chance, but go to the cabinet of ELAC-called "cross-frame hybrid technology" back. It is a material, which will ensure optimum stiffness. .... Inside ensure horizontal and vertical, by Zugstreben verspannte bracing for extra strength, so that the chassis and not hear the case. The basics of 4Pi ribbon that ELAC developed in 1984 jointly with the Van den Hul / Bakker group. Since only the thin membrane film vibrates, the moving mass is extremely low. The sägezahnähnliche form of the membrane ensures stability and agility at high levels. The circumferential foil (red) lies in the strong field Neodymium magnets (anthracite), not only for all cases have sufficient energy, but also to ensure a high degree of sensitivity. Under the rounded upper Alukappe, ... even wrenching of tones makes sitting still a small transmitter (blue), the very low impedance of the ribbon amplifiers adapts fairly. "