Naim and Elac Adante, Wow

Clarinetmonster,  sorry for that ommision, we were talking about his TAD work and the Adante's are more reminiscent of what he was doing with TAD and the Unifi Line  for Elac. 

The Debut line was built to an inexpensive price point and like the Pioneer line was created to sell to the masses so was voiced diferently. 

Andrew Jones is a cagey designer he knows what he can build for a price point. As said before we have a client with the Pioneer's that Andrew Jones designed and they are impressive for a cheapie speaker system. 

Thanks for that. 

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

Audiotroy:
I'm done here.
As always, I've said enough.
You've said too much.

Grgr4blu, oh I am going to miss your insights into sound reprodution and all you add to the discussion, so very much.

If I remember, the post was not about you and in reality it was not about our store, it was about finding a combination that makes the Adantes sound terrific. 

Considering you know so much about the high end audio market, you were not able to add one thing to the conversation, as usual. Hardly surprising. 

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

audiotroy OP746 posts03-08-2018 6:13pmThe other issue is your comments here had nothing to do with Elac you fall into the bad taste behavor of Gr4blu and his incessant complaining of what he perceives is bad form by us.

Dave, thanks for the kind words.  Very classy.  


In our mind Richard has over the years done some good stuff, but lets face facts, he is not a trained engineer. He is a man who came up with some good ideas and launched a company that through hard work and clever manfacturing made a fantastic speaker for the price with particualar trade offs and a sonic signature and yes through the 37 years colloborated with a few others and did come up with some excellent stuff.

By the way there are many guys in this industry who fall into the same catagory including Dan D'agistino and Mark Levinson the man.


Before posting, you may want to get your facts straight.  Look at Vandersteen's resume and then share with me how his electronics background in the Air Force and his college work wasn't formal training?  When you say collaborated, I wonder if you are talking about designing his speaker's over the years?  Actually, I really don't care as your facts aren't really facts so far.

Also, Mark hasn't designed a thing other than a marketing and sales plan.  John and Tom did all the design work.  

Irrelevant as I have been discussing only his current line of speakers when saying you haven't heard them.  I wasn't always a fan of Vandersteen speakers for many reasons.  



As for the excuses of you putting not getting your room back in order after your photo shoot and agreeing that nothing sounded good, that's fair.  The thing is that I am pretty familiar with both the Legacy and the Paradigm's and they both sounded very similar to what I've heard the many other times I've heard them.  I've heard them both in rooms that were dedicated audio rooms with very good room correction.  Many folks like the sound of both and that's cool.  Never said it wasn't.  I just say it's not what I like, but you kept posting after every post of mine for ages that I havent' heard them at your house and that would change my mind.  You bring this all on yourself Dave.  You will never see that and that's cool.  You either have very thin skin as you lash out at anyone who posts anything that goes against your opinion or what you are selling.  I didn't mean to get under your skin, but it's obvious that I did.  Be well