elac – Part-Time Audiophile

LA Audio Show 2017: The $350 to $5,000 systems they were lining up for

June 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

There were a number of spectacular, cost-no-object components drawing stereo fans at the Los Angeles Audio Show, but the room I had the hardest time getting into featured a [...]

AXPONA 2017: Lee’s Best of Show

June 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

This year’s AXPONA was the second one I attended and I thought it was a very well produced event. Many manufacturers were represented and attendance appeared very [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Inaugural event targets newcomers as well as hard-core hobbyists

June 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

If organizers of the Los Angeles Audio Show battled any jitters while planning their brand-new event in a very crowded year, those fears likely have eased in recent weeks. [...]

AXPONA 2017: ELAC Conjures Big Sound

May 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

I have a lot of respect for Andrew Jones. Every show he has something new and it always sounds very good. This year’s AXPONA had something I had been pressing Andrew [...]

“Affordable high-end” — is that like “jumbo shrimp”?

March 4, 2017 // 11 Comments

How many Simolians do you have to part with these days to get good sound? I mean, really? Is it even possible, or just a frustrating pipe dream? That seems to have been Topic [...]

Review: ELAC Uni-Fi UF5 floor standing speakers

February 19, 2017 // 7 Comments

by John Richardson ELAC is an audio technology company that has been around quite a long time, having recently celebrated their 90th birthday. The company began in Germany [...]

CES 2017: 12 hour Tour – Technics, DEG, Mytek, Sony, ELAC, Nagra, MSB, SweetVinyl, dCS, AudioQuest, Musical Surroundings

January 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

This year, I decided to do the accelerated CES 2017 tour. With some loss of good judgement, I created a flight plan in and out of Vegas from Seattle in a single day with [...]

Best of 2016 and Product of the Year

December 24, 2016 // 13 Comments

So here we are again. Somehow, the year has turned, we’re all facing yet another New Year, and yet no one is running through the streets screaming about “the end [...]

RMAF 2016 Wrap: Mission Accomplished/Best of Show

December 11, 2016 // 9 Comments

Escaping on the last jet out of Denver after the close of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2016, I felt a little like the nervous spy-support staff member Faisil in the 1994 movie [...]

RMAF 2016: ELAC and Audio Alchemy Join Forces

November 4, 2016 // 6 Comments

Peter Madnick, founder of Audio Alchemy, dropped a news bomb on me as we stood chatting outside his room at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. I had just heard his compact, [...]