It's not just Elac who sets the bar. You do to. Good to see youre back again. The equipment in the rack! I'm drooling. Nice room! Congratulations

I love your reviews. I appreciate your knowledge and understanding of sound. Beyond compare, on par with Danny!😃 One thing: it is not a thoroughly explained decay pattern, or an explanation of your recording process that draws ME in. It is, rather, the dissemination of emotion and heartfelt experiences that causes ME to buy speakers. Bro, give us a little more in that area. I can’t afford most of the stuff you review. But I live for your explanations of why I should!! Outside of graphs and measures! They are tantalizing, but it’s the OOOFH, this rocked me moments I want to hear!! Love what you do!❤️

Nice review! I wish you would do a video on how you turned your room into a listening room. Start from scratch and walk us through it…where did you put your treatments and why..and let’s hear a before and after recording comparison from pre-treatment and post treatment so we can hear the difference.

Man crushing!!!! Dear Sir. You are always entertaining and informed about how and why a speaker or amplifier, DAC, etc work in the manor that it does. You are a professional word smith you craft everything into sounds that deliver exactly how the product's would perform in a living space. Knowing what it's limited function's are and how to get the most out of the unit at it's price point is a "winner" overall.

Love the new room Ron. Everything is bigger in Texas. Room Dimensions, please. Also, the speaker distance from front and side walls. I'm also waiting for a 'holy grail' box tower speaker ( high end sound under $5k). The closest I've personally auditioned were Fyne Audio F702, but at $9k I can't afford them. Thanks Ron. It's hard for me, a 61 year old with a 42 year audio habit ( no, not hobby, but habit, as in addiction) to find truly knowledgeable reviewers on KZfaq.

Loved your review on the Elac DFR52 and now the UFR52. Thanks Ron!

Dude that room is incredible, enjoy it!

Great to see a new review from NRD! These speakers seem like a nice addition to the already good Elac speaker line. The new listening room looks really good too.

Review aside……man, that is a killer sonic dream chamber you are listening in. The red choice……artful and well done sir.

Great review Ron, been looking forward to your thoughts and looking forward to the UBR52 review! Have a theory for you regarding that top end extension. I've never been a fan of those ridiculous metal straps manufacturers use for joining biwire posts, I'll bet you anything those are the culprit. I would bet if you have a set of high quality biwire jumpers on hand (hell, even some quality copper wiring) that if you swap out the stock straps the top end extension and air will return.

Is that an Eames chair? If yes, comfy? Good for listening? Hifi-seating could be an entire video topic in itself, hint hint.

Ron - it would be beneficial if you could walk us thru what to expect from the various iterations of Elac speakers, specifically, stepping up from the Debuts (original, 2.0, Reference) and the Uni-Fi (original, 2.0, Reference) and the sound quality changes for the added $$$. It would also be good if you could include some comments on home theater use as well as 2-ch music.

Thank you for the review Ron. Honest opinion, will you take the references over the 2.0 ? On your review on the 2.0 you seems enthusiastic about the 2.0s. thank you !!! Enjoy your new home.

Hey Ron, I would love to a thorough review of the NX-Studios. I know you had a discussion/ podcast kind of review with Danny but I think it would be interesting to see it in your "regular" review format. I feel like there is barely any information/ reviews/ impressions to find about these speakers which makes someone like me, who really want the build these, feel like taking a leap into the dark by doing so. TLDR: Please make me buy the NX Studios

How does the polk reserve compare to the elac uni-fi referance?

The right way to approach data is to go where it leads you. A quick calibration check could have been to re-test an already measured speaker in the new room, and compare measurements; if the new measurements fit the previous measurements, the room is not a factor - if there's a large delta using the new measurements when compared to the old, the new room is probably influencing the measurement results. As it stands, I have to conclude that the UFR52's don't measure all that well compared to some other ELAC products.

Would be really interesting to compare these with concentric KEF R5 towers

I think I might Mike the older 2.0s over these.

Welcome back. Glad you survived the move.

Nice short review. I hope listening session will follow soon with these speakers. One thing that i would really appreciate NRD if you could mention how far you tested these speakers from each other and the angle. Andrew Jones have described in Elac unifi 2.0 manual that for best soundstage image is to toe them in up to 15 degree. Its great info if you tested like that or not. PS i still love my unifi 2.0 towers and bookies since march this year :)

As always great review love it thx . I did buy bro 8 after your review and had a very nice time with the bro/ iota combo but have some issue with bright top end. My question is will these speakers be a good next step/upgrade and maybe be smoother top end with iota? Thx again for any help cheers

Great review... Missed your take on bass refinement, as the Cheap audio man said, he thinks the bookshelf version hits better...? Also would love it, if you could get your hands on Neat Acoustics Orketstra or even the Ministra speakers... There are little reviews out there and in any case, you are the best in my opinion...

I don’t know about you guys, but I particularly enjoyed the salsa.

Nice to see you settled in Texas, congrats.

Your new room looks great BTW .. =)

Ron -You Sir are Definitely a leader in the Audiophile community. Thank you for always caring and making sure that ALL your followers understand the information you are sharing. Job well done Brother!

This is why you are one of the best ... 7:40 ... Thank you, Ron. I celebrate and support your resolute approach to this.

Congrats with your new room.

after further investigation, If your measurements are right, please share your sharp condescending conclusions 🤠 speaker designers need to know when manufacturing failed to meet the designer’s intended performance objectives; this is why TVs have firmware updates to fix such flaws. ELAC should get an earful from Andrew

Beautiful room!

The new space looks great

I'm goona comment on the room V-3.. You have a few built in problems, and while you may not know you are hearing them making effect... I'll wager you they are. Unfortunately they are built in. The window on the left, the built in resonance generator on the right, er, I mean the cabinet with records in it. And the other resonance generator on the right, the fireplace. The windows contribution will be high freq. noise. If you go on amazon or elsewhere, and purchase a cheap stethoscope you can use that to actually listen to the sound contributions of various stuff, speaker cabinets, windows, equipment racks, everything. It takes a bit to figure out how to use it, the key is to put it on the item then lift off, soon you will get the idea. The cabinet and fireplace will produce resonances in the lower frequencies, you will never be able to identify their contribution specifically unless you can remove the items from the room, which you won't be able to do, obviously. In my world I had a crappy/muddy area somewhere in the 100-200 hz realm, simply could not fix it no matter what I did to the rig or the room. Finally I decided to completely redo the back of the room, where I had cheap wood bookshelves full of books and records, just like Paul McGowen says to... As I mentioned in another of my comments to you, play music when you do this so you can hear the effects. I had music on when I removed the bookshelves and I listened, in real time, as the muddy bass that drove me mad for the previous year.... vanished. If you can walk past the window outside... crank something up a bit and go outside and listen to the window. You should be able to hear the windows sound. In my palace the windows are -non top of the line items- and likely bolted to the cinderblock... they scream, they are horrible, I discovered this via a stethoscope in one room and noticed the same scream when walking outside past a window in the big music room... When I treated the glass in the small room the highs transformed.... and I was able to remove absorption I had hanging from the ceiling that I put up to deal with high frequency noise before I learned it's source. I used 1/4" x 2" round 30 duro sorbathane pucks on the glass to dampen it's vibrations down to be in tune with the music or less... and then there is absorption over the glass... and more... I would think a big 1/1 ratio rockwool plug for the fireplace would do. and the cabinets, that's your call, as I'm sure aesthetics will be involved. Cheers.

Thanks Randy! Good stuff

I'd like to upgrade from my well loved energy reference connoisseur towers. Would you say these are still tops in the 2500 and under tier? Or perhaps there is an exponential jump at 3000 ? Inquiring minds need to know Ron!! :)

Can I even hear 15k? These old rock and roll ears barely hear when my wife's callin' for me eh?

If Andrew would just make some speakers like this that were higher sensitivity that would be a dream. Label them as home theater speakers say you need a subwoofer with them because they have no bass and gave them this kind of tuning I'd buy a pair immediately.

where can i get the wallet?

Do I need a setup like that? Im thinking of an integrated with built in dac like Hegel H120 and a laptop (flac) Your room and system looks amazing

Any reviews coming up on the Focal Kanta no2? Love your reviews

Regarding the mic calibration: are they traceable to the National Bureau of Standards? Your calibration certificate for each mic should state so .. if not, it could be the mics.

Hi Ron, main differences between elac urf52 and polk reserve R600? Thanks

Hi @New Record Day a question, did you do the bookshelf version review? You said you got them, and I'm interested in your opinion, especially the difference with the towers as they have a bigger woofer if I'm not mistaken.

These are not in stock in my area, but the Debut Reference are. How do they compare head to head?

Im hoping one day Andrew will make horn speaker that is better than TAD 4003. I promise I will buy 3 pieces😍

Congrats to NRD for getting out front on these new Elacs. I'm finding it very surprising that A. Jones is surprised that Ron measures the new Uni-Fi Ref as a little rolled off in the treble from the UF 2.0. The designer should obviously have known about this characteristic of his new speaker. What gives here ?

how about uni fi reference compare to debut reference in your opinion?

This or the Polk R600? Which do you prefer

Ron, how do these stack up against the Triangle BR08 you reviewed previously?

I am happy to see you including measurements and reinforcing that they matter. I don’t know what/who you refer to with the knucklehead comment, I will hope it isn’t ASR. It would be a big dumb mistake to call their efforts anything but extremely helpful and useful.

Great review

Yee haw. Nice review 🤠

Hey Ron, great review. Check up the gear that you used "in the description below", but can't stretch the wallet that far. So, is there any other hybrid amp that can sound grear with de Unifi reference with a price tag lower than $2000.00?

What is on the front wall

Can you try out the Novus 6t tower speakers from Aperion?? I think they are close or beat the unifi 2.0 speakers.

what you moved again ?

Great review, Ron. Bravo! 👏👏👏 If I’m not mistaken, it was your first real one in TX too. Glad things seem to be going well for you, man! ✌️🎶🌝

I like that NRD means nerd :)

Andrew Jones is the best! I wish he went back to TAD!

I must be the only person on the planet that doesn’t like the Andrew Jones sound - Pioneer and Elac days. I haven’t heard his TAD line but the Elac and Pioneer line is meah.

Currently my vintage Energys make Mark Knopfler sound like Barry White and Barry White sound like Mark Knopfler so I’m looking at these. Thx.

Welcome to Texas!

Nice chair!

Thoughts on these in a smaller room? 12X13X9 sitting 8 feet away and they would be 1 foot from wall. Am I asking for trouble with these?

Texas looks like it's delivered on the room and then some. Did Randy get it approved by Christopher Walken?

👍‍‍👍‍‍!

Take 5 different speakers that measure ruler flat and they will all sound quite different, I can assure you. The description "Lifelike" catches my attention.

Where is the X5 review?

Do floor-standing speakers need subwoofer?

For some reason I can't find your review of your Eames replica listening chair. Can you reply with the link? Thx!

Read test and measure bringing those speakers into one of your smaller rooms untreated with lower ceilings like the majority of the real world will be trying do use of speakers in. To show on your graph definitively how much a room ads or takes away in dips and peaks of the spectrum. Yes we all know these knuckleheads out there with big egos placing reviews on KZfaq who have bad rooms and poor speaker placement but yet they put out a review with bad audio room reflection information. Keep up the good work like your videos.

These or the Klipsch 8000f's?

I watched a review of another KZfaqr who also measured the speakers and his top-end didn't fall off. Could it be that you didn't get the best speaker, or maybe an outlier or one who fell through the crack in the quality control?

Sounds like the Reference are only an incremental improvement over the 2.0's; but at double the price and in a more attractive box. Seems like you're paying for the better looking box.... Comes down to preferring the roll-off or not. Which can be approximated using EQ or room correction curves anyway.... Best choice: get the 2.0's and use the saved money for something else... You weren't as excited about the References as you were with the 2.0 review.... Looks like the 2.0 improvement over the original UniFi's was much bigger than the Reference is over the 2.0's... So if you are coming from the original UniFi's, get the 2.0's and save your money.

Who's the knucklehead?

The "2.0" 's aren't the original UniFi's... The UB\F5's were. .. And they remain the best ones (but you must have the power to get the magic out of them).

I like the look of the new room dude. I have a question regarding it, how does the brick fireplace effect the side reflections. I have a smaller room that will be listening area with a fireplace on the right side as well.

These are too magnified...I better go for Boston acoustics A26 any day.or tannoy..no droppings etc...anyone who has same opinion

Burn in might be the problem.

The measurements and waterfall are not good. Why are we kidding here

Finally got rid of the overstuffed couch/sound killer. Maybe you can actually hear what you're reviewing now

U-knee Fi, haha. Sorry... I'm such an ass. ** Mike **

Uhhh I didn't understand a complete sentence through this entire video. Is this how audiophiles talk? Not even programmers, surgeons, or chaos theorists sound this complex & foreign

I don't enjoy the b roll with the way overdone depth of field.

This guy is dedicated and gives good review. Now if we could just get him to stop talking through his nose.

U apparently have no clue what you are blabing about, but its ok, 90% of people have no clue either so they are happy ...

No, "we" won't be patiently waiting. You might be, but most people can't afford $5000 speakers. Most Americans can't afford a $500 emergency.

Are you sure that you know what you're talking about?