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ELAC Debut 2.0 Home Theater Speaker System First Look

See the complete review for the ELAC Debut 2.0 Home Theater Speaker System.

When ELAC first hired well regarded speaker designer Andrew Jones and product development specialist Chris Walker away from TAD/Pioneer back in 2015, the company made plain the seriousness of their intention to re-establish the brand back in the US market.

The first speaker line introduced by this “dynamic duo” was aptly called Debut. It quickly gained widespread acclaim as a well-designed, value-oriented line that punched significantly above its weight. This initial success afforded the team the ability to expand ELAC’s product lines with a number of more adventurous and innovative offerings in both speakers and electronics. 2016 saw the acquisition of Audio Alchemy and the bringing aboard of key engineers, including founder Peter Madnick, to update the brand he created and continue its life under the ELAC umbrella. In just under four years ELAC has gone from essentially “Zero to Hero” in the US market, significantly expanding their product, reach and name recognition all from that initial beach-head they established with the Debut line.

Coming around full circle, Jones and Walker have seen fit to revisit and update their initial success with the recent launch of Debut 2.0. While at first blush the new speakers may seem visually similar to the originals, Andrew Jones has redesigned everything about the updated line. Debut 2.0 incorporates new drivers, new crossovers, re-engineered cabinets and new on-wall and ATMOS speaker options to effectively broaden the installation possibilities. ELAC has been nice enough to send me a full home theater speaker package consisting of a pair of F6.2 towers, a C6.2 center channel speaker, a pair of OW4.2 on-wall surround speakers, a pair of B5.2 bookshelf speakers and a pair of SUB3010 active subwoofers. The speakers arrived well packaged, appear nicely finished and proved easy to install and set up. Look for a complete review, with measurements in the near future.

See the complete review for the ELAC Debut 2.0 Home Theater Speaker System.

Carlo Lo Raso

A native of Toronto Canada, Carlo's interest in audio began at a young age when, unbeknownst to his mother, he started taking apart her numerous transistor radios to see how they worked. This desire for “knowledge through deconstruction” continued through to the family’s 8-track tape player, turntable, headphones, and speakers. Carlo subsequently spent a lot of time in his room. Toronto was a fertile ground for Hi-Fi in the 1970s and 80s and Carlo spent much of his wayward youth hanging out in downtown Toronto stereo shops, listening to all manner of gear and picking the brains of the various store owners. Through that formative experience, Carlo developed an appreciation for good music and good sound reproduction. Also, as a budding graphic artist, the aesthetic aspects of a given piece of gear became increasingly of interest to his eyes. It was at about that time as well that Carlo began purchasing “Audio Magazine” on a regular basis and came to appreciate, in particular, the writing and reviewing of the late Leonard Feldman. Later on, he was also influenced by the writing and observations of the staff at Sound and Vision Canada, helmed at the time by Alan Loft. Carlo graduated from Sheridan College with a degree in Classical Animation and was subsequently employed by Walt Disney Consumer Products for 10 years as a Character Artist and Art Director. Having become disenchanted with Los Angeles, he then decided to strike out on his own. Carlo started his own company and has been freelancing artwork, from his home studio, primarily for the toy and publishing industries since 2001. In 2013, on a bit of a lark, Carlo answered a “Call for Writers” ad from an AV website that he had been regularly reading for about 5 years called Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity. He had come to appreciate the website’s combination of subjective impressions along with the objective bench-testing available in several of the reviews. The “B-Team” must have been working that day because by some miracle he was hired as a writer and his first review for the site was published early in 2014. Carlo has been continually writing, editing, traveling, listening, and learning on the company’s behalf ever since. Carlo currently lives in Granville, Ohio with his wife, two sons, and a very old, but chill dachshund.

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  • I'm excited to check out your review when you get around to it. The original Debut series was so highly touted, did they really step up and create a worthy sequel with the Debut 2.0?

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