The B5's terminals are probably the nicest of any speaker I've owned. Also, look at that textured vinyl coating on the speaker, this texture looks sharp and feel sleek as well. This port looks okay, and sits on the back of the speaker. If I had to guess I would say this is a 2nd order crossover with some baffle step and level matching of the tweeter.īranded port, you know these guys mean business. The crossover has one iron core inductor, two air core, and a pair of poly caps and a pair of wire wound resistors. knuckle wrap sounds alright with the thick vinyl coating on the outside doing some damping. Also, there are no braces inside of the box. Take note of the cabinet construction, it's not very thick and has the same Chinese cardboard texture found in only the cheapest MDF. According to the documentation on the side of the box it's supposed to crossover the drivers at 3,000Hz. The driver looks pretty nice, and I think outside of the dust cap it's very good reminding me of something I would see from a company like Morel. This is to help with power handling and venting as there is a larger than average hole for the space behind the dust cap to vent to the cabinet as the cone flaps around. Other useful specifications about the woofer are that it uses a big voice coil, inch and one half from what I recall. I think it's retarded, and you can't convince me that it wouldn't sound better with a standard dust cap. One thing I know for sure is that the inverted dust cap was specifically inverted to avoid touchy-touchy people denting the cones. I'm not sure what he is on about, the cone looks like carbon fiber to me. Jones keeps telling people that this is some kind of aramid fiber, which I think is a paper made from rare New Zealand bird pelts. Without the grills the speaker is very elegant, but the tweeter driver, thanks to the horn loading and slimy coating, looks like a creepy dead eye from a fish that's been out in the sun too long.ĭr. Paper clip folding and light prying got the grill off the tweeters with only minimal effort. "Dome tweeters are so fragile and yet so powerful" - Sir. Well, as far as I can tell the Debut Series are only going out through Amazon and being preordered direct from ELAC, so all the grilling seems much ado about nothing. The explanation for all of this protection is these speakers are supposedly going to be in a showroom somewhere, and an idiot will try to touch the "magic sound buttons" ruining the speakers. On this latest series of speakers we have multiple layers of grill to make sure that all high frequency information is completely smothered in cloth, plastic, metal and some type of what I can only assume to be powder coating. ![]() ![]() Jones loves the grills, but they don't love him back. This ELAC B5 speaker I'm reviewing is the lowest price bookshelf speaker of the group known as the debut series.Īs with all Andrew Jones speakers, we start with the grill. Other than that the transition appears to be going smoothly with a full line of entry level speakers from ELAC hitting the market just months after Jones got started. ![]() In a strange intellectual property situation Jones has been able to keep his name, but his signature is forever property of Pioneer electronics. Jones is jumping ship from Pioneer after it attempted to sell him into indentured servitude in a merger with Onkyo, and is now batting for the Germans at ELAC America. One of my favorite people in the industry, Andrew Jones, who is rumored to be both a doctor, as well as knighted by at least one of the crowns of Europe has switched teams. He will deliver us from the old testament hell of bad speakers to the promised land of ELAC America. ELAC B5 Debut Series 5.25" Bookshelf Speakers by Andrew JonesĪndrew Jones, the messiah of budget audio.
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