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In Reply to: under $500 posted by hifitommy on December 9, 2017 at 17:03:40:
yes, the elacs are cheaper, and i've been seeing them popping up a lot, particularly in absolute sound recommendations, but there are 3 things i don't like about them...
1. soft dome tweeters
2. ported
3. 6 inch woofers
i don't want midwoofers over 5 1/2" and for what the elacs are, would rather go back to little NHTs which are great little speakers in most ways except that they lack the tweeter speed of hard domes and ribbons etc. i'm after.
the mini phils are ALMOST exactly what i'd design for myself. i really want to step up to a ribbon tweeter as they supposedly sound even better than planars and AMTs which would be my other choices for tweeter followed by titanium, then aluminum with soft domes being a last resort. they just can't snap like metal and ribbons on cowbells which eventually started bothering me about my superzeos after hearing just how much more open B&W, paradigm & maggie treble is.
the elacs, like 99% of the speakers out there are just more "me too" annoying bass reflex speakers and i despise ports.
the mini phils are worth stretching my budget for and might possibly be "the last speakers i ever need"
i loved the drivers on my energy RC10s which totally outclassed the NHTs from top to bottom, but hated their port resonance unplugges and box resonance unplugged. as much as i love speed and detail, i hate resonance even more and like NHTs better for their total lack of coloration even if they also lack a fair amount of detail and are too forgiving.
the elacs just aren't my kind of speaker, but thanks for trying to help.
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- still liking the mini phils, thanks - thump 12/11/1714:25:10 12/11/17 (0)
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