ELAC Vela FS 407

FLOORSTANDING SPEAKERS OF THE YEAR $5000-$10,000 LOUDSPEAKERS Modern décor has driven the move to tower speakers rather than the wider boxes of old. But tall thin towers generate difficult cabinet standing waves, and with multiple bass drivers it can be hard even to position the bass port without issues. Elac’s solution in the Vela FS 407 is to use two vents — one downfiring to enable easier positioning (see opposite), and a second vent at a point that has opposite phase excitation from the cabinet’s standing wave. That’s just one innovation whch assists these Elacs (the German company is more fully called Electroacustic GmbH) in their remarkable performance. Another is version five of Elac’s famed JET tweeter, which employs the innovation of squeezing sound from a concertina-like diaphragm which dates…

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