A HiFi newbs Elac Adante review


First post here! (I’ll keep this relevant soley to the adantes) :)

Background: I have a fairly lengthy audiophile habit in car audio but not home HiFi. As a first time home buyer Ive been chomping at the bit to piece my first system together without concern of bothering neighbos! so needless to say, I’m new to home HiFi - recently purchased the adante stand mounts and picked up a roksan k3 integrated to power the beasts (these suckers are huge). Bear in mind this is my first HiFi setup so I put almost all of my budget into the speakers and an integrated amplifier as a foundation.

I’ve gotten some time under my belt now listening and am quite happy with the combo. The setup simply stated just sounds "fun" by that I mean open, precise and has a massive stage with solid bass. The best way to describe this is just a large wall of sound coming to my seat with pinpoint stereo accuracy of vocals coming right down the middle. I certainly find the bass adequate but feel a sub thrown in the mix would make a significant impact. I listen mostly to accoustic folk, modern r&b, alternative and newer hip hop streamed thru a Chromecast hdmi to my TV and the TV’s digital out to an ifi micro dac. I’m aware my source is not ideal but until I cash a few more checks and finnish my 24’ x14 dedicated listening room (former spare bedroom) it will have to do. I completely blew my budget but can’t say that eating hot dogs and ramen in front of a bad ass stereo for a few weeks is all that bad haha. The only thing that comes to mind that could use improvement is that I could see how others might think these are overly direct or in your face in regards to the top end but feel I can take this down once I move everything to the man cave.

Currently using home Depot 14g wire off the spool and a less than ideal source so I’m confident there is PLENTY of room to grow! Can’t wait to see where this journey goes in the mean time 😁

Any forum thoughts on using a mini DSP? Used these in my car setup for 2 way active xover and t/a with a ton of success and want to get the he mini DSP with Dirac for room correction and integrating a stereo sub set up. Oh Wich reminds me, any thoughts on rel vs svs sealed for something like this?

Pic of current setup
https://i.imgur.com/RmZ4mr8.jpg

Cheers!
Chris
clucas65

Showing 1 response by motberg

Thanks for the review Chris!

I have a couple of the miniDSP HD´s (2x4) that replaced the standard miniDSP model used for supertweeters and subs management (main speakers running full range).. even there, I felt the HD was a nice step forward compared to the standard version. I am thinking that with the level of detail you are describing, you may notice any additional ADDA conversions though (I think there is digital I/O available, not sure)..

I would consider room treatments and speaker/listening positions tweaking good  place to start dialing things in once you get your stuff into the cave... there is a lot of info available online, but I have found this a very time-efficient resource.
http://getbettersound.com/index.php 

I am thinking with those speakers and your music preferences, you may want to audition some other flavor of a R2R or multibit DAC to compare against your iFi. A DAC that offers a NOS (non oversampling) option may be a good match, but watch so you do not lose that sound stage depth/width at the expense of tonality.

Here is a somewhat-off-the-radar company making source components that seem high value,   https://www.allo.com/index.html ..

Good luck and will be looking forward to any additional comments you have time to share.