Elac Debut Reference

Ok let me give this a bump.  Something unique, I believe, about the small Reference floorstanders, is that each box has three port, two circular, in back, and the floor slot n front.  After listening to these, and finding them helpful in fine tuning my system, I wondered why?  After all, they’re relatively inexpensive.  I’ve other speakers, classic ADS 880’s, stand mounts ProAc 1sc, Kef ls50s, another pr. small floorstanders, Castle Conway III’s, and Daedalus DA-1s.  The boxes look very nice but r built to a price point.  The driver’s are nice carbon fiber units in a 3 way config, the tweeter a nice wave guide, the crossover I tried but couldn’t get to, it must be up, mid box.  Yet the things r spacious and neutral in a way some others r not.  I would think, a more expensive speaker, with better boxes, parts, pieces,ect... would be where many would want to end up.  
I suspect, those three ports allow these units to be so neutral in presentation.  A nice value, and well thought out by Mr. Jones...

They sound marvelous with 40wpc tubes or 90wpc ss.  There’s no midbase hump, but if your pre has tone controls, they work as u wold want.  If u have balanced components, they nicely show its benefits.  They show cable differences really quite dramatically.  They show the nuance of a good phono pre’s minute adjustments.  I’ve a EAT Petite and a Bob’s Sky SUT, w/VPI Traveler & Dynavector 20x2L.  I’ve settled upon Audio Envy interconnects & use a Benchmarck Dac3 feed by a Yamaha A-S2000 cd, the Benchmark balanced out into a Yamaha A-S2000, pre outs to a Mystere PA-11 with some nice new old stock 6sn7/el34’s.

The Elacs have also shown me I’d give up a tad of resolution for a flatter eq curve.  McCoy Tyners Fly Like the Wind,  Grants First Stand, GERRY Beckleys Five Mile Road, r all well rendered.  Something about the amp, the box, the room... no distracting pops or ticks, music, an honest speaker.  Probably too boring for most...