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GERMANY’S ELAC is a brand that has greatly expanded its presence in the hi-fi and home theater worlds over the past five or so years. While the company itself has been around for considerably longer, back in 2015 it brought on former KEF, Infinity, TAD, and Pioneer chief speaker engineer Andrew Jones to develop new product lines. First out of the gate for Jones was the Debut Series, followed by the Uni-Fi series, both affordable lines designed to pull fresh recruits into the audiophile ranks. New speakers arrived in quick succession, including the upscale but still affordable Adante passive and Navis powered models (reviews of all four lines can be found on soundandvision.com). One element that has remained constant through this flurry of speaker production is Jones’s use of a concentric driver that locates the tweeter at the center of the midrange cone. According to Elac, this design allows for matched off-axis performance of the tweeter and midrange, which in turn yields a flat frequency response, enhanced imaging, and consistent sound quality throughout the listening space.
The most recent project for Jones has been to revisit the first two series he designed for Elac and create “2.0” versions, including the Uni-Fi 2.0 speakers under review here. While the new Uni-Fi lineup has a largely similar look to its
