whoever in this post calls the Adantes an absolute flop is a dumb, foolish and ignorant idiot, who probably never ever even listened to them. I own a pair of the AF61 and also a pair of Dynaudio Confidence 5. The Adante Af61s sounded very bright in the first couple of weeks, almost shrill. They do need brake-in time to smoothen out. Once they are fully broken in the silk dome tweeter actually starts to relax and becomes a lot more balanced sounding- same is true for the mid range unit. Bass slam and extension were great from the beginning, but as mentioned before, compared to the Confidence 5, the mid range and tweeter sounded too bright in the first 3 weeks. After that female vocals became spot on. However, one statement is true, the Adante AF61s are very holographic in soundstage imaging, revealing the width and depth of the recorded soundstage with ease. They are also unforgiving- if your gear sucks, they will sound bad as well. On the contrary, you will hear every little upgrade and investment, from fuses to cables and interconnects, when your source and amplification are high quality. I have been using mainly PS Audio gear, BHK250, P15 powerplant, Directstream DAC, combined with a tuned Mystere CA21 tube preamp. Fuses are SR Orange, Interconnects are Nordost Tyr and Wireworld Silver Eclipse 6. Powercords are mainly from Pangea- Ac9SE and AC14XL Mk2 for the preamp, Wireworld Silver Electra 6 for the PS Audio DSD, streaming high res audio from my NAS and via Audirvana from a dedicated Mac Mini. At the current discount prices the Elac Andante AF-61 is a fantastic deal, but they prefer high quality gear to really unleash their true potential.
