Bookshelf speakers Heco Elan 300

Heco - German company with half a century of history, has long become part of a large company Recoton (besides her corporation includes a number of companies with global name: Advent, Acoustic Research, Jensen, Magnat, and others) and is now enjoying a huge production capacity of its factories in China. However, acoustics, as before, developing European designers and engineers. And they are faithful to the principle enunciated in his time at Heco: "Sophisticated Sound".

I do not know how the sound, but looks very refined in systems. Speakers Heco Elan 300 - very weighty and elegantly decorated. Each side wall is made of two speakers plates connected at an angle. This design is much stronger and the idea should not resonate. Very solid look not only machined metal flanges speakers, but also cast a continuously expanding bass reflex socket (port mounted at the rear). Speakers at the traditional view: the bass/midrange cone section has a smooth molded cellulose squeaker - cloth spherical dome with a diameter of 25 mm. However, it is still difficult head. Bass/midrange features advanced design baskets and magnetic system. Dome tweeter transducer - double magnet system and a special impregnated with nano-particles.

The first impression of listening Elan 300 is not too bright. These large bookshelf speakers give a soft warm sound, completely devoid of aggressive notes. He even wanted to write "old-fashioned", but changed his mind. It conjures up dry dense bass, while the Elan 300 he just plentiful, soft, no sharp attack. The soundstage has a pronounced separation. Localization accurate. Slightly lacking only stability. Slightly budge head left and right - and the picture is smeared. The main advantage of this model - perfect nuances lower middle band. Wooden deck instruments, vocals (which men that women) reproduces rich, because very animatedly and musically. Very plausible and dynamics in the upper band, except, perhaps, only extremely high frequencies - "air" room or studio where the music was recorded, if cleaned up. Fortunately, this is the only drawback tweeters Heco Elan 300. They are able to give the correct interpretation of all the high-pitched sounds. If this voice sibilance, they sound exactly like sibilance if sharp treble, the sound takes on the characteristic metallic flavor, but if you are playing an instrument with a strong noise spectrum, its origin is not doubted. In other words, a small lack of information at the highest frequencies is compensated by the cleanliness and the lack of ad-libbing.