ELAC - Adante... what’s the verdict?

Post update,

Just played some Tidal on the AVM 60/MCA 50 combo and wasn't loving the sound. I could hear a hollowness in the midrange and could hear the upper octave emphasis that is probably what Steve was talking about.

I will say that I have never loved the DTS play fi and the lack of MQA also not loving the original MCA 50 either, but as we said in the earlier posts this is our process. 

We test with a lot of different gear and combos.  The Parasound amplifier is richer. We are thinking a warmer voiced integrated amplifier like the Micromega M100, or a Rega, or the Unision Reserach tube hyrbid may be the ticket. 

Also tube amplifiers may be the combo that works. 

For people who have the AS 61 what are the combos of electronics, sources and cables are you using? How many hours of playing time was required before the speakers broke in?

Pros so far: Big soundstage, great bass, good clarity.
Cons so far: Slight hollowness in the midrange, slight tendency to coldness in the treble. 

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

Hificrazed, 

Do you work for Elac? You have 17 posts all about the Adantes and a very recent join date?

Does that make you feel better Contuzzi, we work with many products, unless we can come up with a combo that acutally works with the Adantes we will resign the line. 

At this point don't know if these issues are edemic with the product and that is how it is voiced or it is a setup issue?

We were affraid the Adantes would beat the ATC SCM 19 at $4k but the ATC's so far are way better. 

For a $2,500.00 set of speakers the Adantes are very good, the question is what will be the right combonation of gear that will make them sing?

My gut is telling me you need either cables or components with a fatter upper midrange, and  a slightly rolled off top end.

I am willing to bet Prima Luna gear and the Adantes will make a terrific match. 

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

d2girls,

The Personas are way better than the Adante AS 61's. 

As I said earlier the Adante shows tremendous promise and so far is doing certain things very well, the amount and tightness of the bass is very impressive, so is the big soundstage. 

From our limited so far music demos vs home theater demos, it is quite apparent that the Adantes will require careful system matching and probably more expensive equipment than what many people with a $2,500.00 speaker budget might be thinking about.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

While waiting for the Elacs to sell I decided to just let them play at low volume for the past 4 days. I ended up selling my reference speaker cables because I need a pair of biwired cables for the Vandersteens that I ordered so I threw in the old trusty Blue Jeans cables(slightly rolled off on top and a smidge grainy compared to reference cables) and decided to change power cords to Cerious(warmer than my Furutech’s) on my Aurender and Lyngdorf TDAI-2170...Wow. What I’m hearing now is incredible sense of space and tempo/timing. It still doesn’t have the tonal richness of paper drivers with SET but tonal saturation/warmth is vastly better. I spent about an hour absolutely glued to my seat tonight listening to music with absolutely zero fatigue. I pulled my listing for them. No doubt worth a little effort. I was thinking it would take both effort, time, and $$$ but like I said before I think Primaluna or Quicksilver el34 mid monos are potentially a great match (never know until you try).Cerainly my tweaks were all low cost and shockingly pleasing. The speakers were able to unravel densely layered music yet managed to have a very cohesive sound.