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Has anyone purchased the new Elac Adante floorstanders yet?

I’m considering auditioning them vs. my Goldenear Triton Ones. The Tritons are clean and solid sounding, but seem to lack some sparkle, air and detail in my system. Have Cary SLP-05 preamp and Passlabs XA60.5 amps.  Room is 25 ft x 15 ft x 10 ft, and very open.
Think the Adantes may be more coherent and live sounding, without sacrificing any bass.
opinions?
ps: I get better sound in a much smaller room with a Rogue Cronus Magnum II and Audio Physic Scorpios. Go figure. — could be the “near field” effect.
cakids
cakids OP
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Thanks to these suggestions, I will try moving various eqipment from the less expensive rig to the main system, as an experiment. If the Cronus Magnum improves the sound, then preamp/amp is the culprit, for example. If nothing improves it, then it’s most likely the room itself, the speakers or cabling.
All this will take some doing, so I probably won’t get to it for a week or so.

Don’t want to add significant $$ to system at this time.

I still would like to hear from an actual Elac Adante owner, though.
djohnson54
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You might want to try the Brooklyn as a preamp into the XA60s.  You may or may not like the sound but it also might balance the warmness of the Pass amps - either way, you'll learn something.  My other thought is that we're talking about two different rooms here and the room is almost always a huge contributor to the system's sound (nearfield listening also eliminates a lot of this).  Dick
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ozzy
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I owned the Cary slp-05 a few years ago.
To me, it is a very dark sounding piece. I even tried some expensive tube rolling, sold the Cary. 

Also once you replace the Cary get Cerious Matrix cabling throughout.

ozzy
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twoleftears
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I read several show reports, and all but one of them were very positive.  It apparently has a very innovative internal bass configuration.  And thank goodness it has a soft dome tweeter!

Still, as others have said, I have yet to see reports from anyone who has these in their own home.  The proof of the pudding, etc. etc.

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hificrazed
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Just purchased these AS-61 from Music Direct on Thursday. Still assessing them. First they are extremely large for a bookshelf speaker. Gloss black finish is impeccable. 

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