Eltax Liberty 5 series

Advantages: Excellent affordability and sound
Disadvantages: Is there any?

...been unfairly judged purely on the cost of their products, is it totally unheard of to get quality products without having to spend loads of money? Not according to Eltax. The treble is very clear and distinguishable, and the bass is powerful yet subtle and warm. I recognised parts of songs I had never realised before, even ones I've had for years! I am even using them as part of a computer music set-up and they are doing the job nicely until I can afford some quality monitors. Overall a very good set of speakers which should have the respect they deserve....

B3ar 06.03.2003 · Read review
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Review of Eltax Liberty 5 Speaker Package

It's Creative with speakers!

Advantages: Tiny, FM radio, voice recorder, speaker
Disadvantages: Quite some, read the review

...I never had a great respect for Creative?s audio quality, in a sense they are know to have at best ?above average? and normally ?average? audio quality. None of their audio products has ever reached, forget about over running, the standard set out by the best up there. This new Creative ZEN Stone Plus is no exception only that you get a speaker system, whose sound quality is not more than what you can expect from speaker so tiny, as a bonus and only that. The Upgrade to Creative Zen Stone plus, keeping the same price tag with upgraded accessories without charges. Providing silicon skin and detachable clip for the skin plus the standard ear-bud, instructions and of course the USB cable. I thought it was an inch from the Shuffle and Clip. The skin is a quality one providing openings for USB cable and the speaker. The new Zen Stone...

roktimdutta 23.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Creative ZEN Stone with Speaker 2 GB

Eltax millenium 500

Advantages: very loud, cheap way to get good loud sound.
Disadvantages: police knocking on the door!! and falling out with neighbours

...I haved owned a set of these speakers for roughly 4 years and is always a joy to have them turned up on high volume, they seem to be able to handle any type of music without any distortion, from the bass of rap and techno, to the more elegant tones of classical. was so excited to get home and open the boxes and set them up to the hi-fi system, very easy to set up the normal positive and negative connections you get with most hi-fi speakers. Each speaker of mine has a power output of 500 watts which is plenty enough for home use and almost three times the output of my amplifier. Sat there with my brother turned up the volume, made sure i played a track with a variety of bass and high pitch tones was amazed by the sound quality of the high pitch tones as on normal hi-fi speakers they distort fairly quickly but these sounded perfect...

thegeth 07.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Eltax 500 Millennium

Mid price performance, budget cost

Advantages: Excellent mid-priced speakers at budget price
Disadvantages: Not small!

...My pair of Eltax Liberty 5 floor standing speakers give astonishing results and cost a lot less than I expected. These impressive beasts give true mid priced performance at very little more than budget cost. I bought just the main speakers on their own, and paid around the hundred pound mark, where else, but Richer Sounds. This was part of a two stage ploy to get some semi-serious audio kit into the house without 'er indoors taking a tantrum! They stand a full 84cm off the ground, are 20cm wide and are 33 cm front to back, but the shouldn't be pushed against a wall as this restricts the rear reflex port. They are made of 22mm chipboard, so they are substantial enough to do the business, without needing to be a weightlifter to move them, mine are covered in 'beech' effect foil. There is a single 150mm bass...

dobieg 31.03.2003 · Read review
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Review of Eltax Liberty 5 Speaker Package

Lost in Sound

Advantages: A marvel for the money
Disadvantages: bulky if i really must complain

...£500 has never felt more like £1,000 worth of kit before. To say that I am thrilled with the performance of my Eltax set-up would be to underestimate the enjoyment I'm getting from them. Having upgraded from Dolby Pro-Logic to Dts, 5.1 etc a few years back, I bought an all in package, comprising of a Technics receiver and satellites and an Eltax sub. Things started off great, over-awed by all the new sounds floating around my room, and the oomph of the sub, I was happy. Then, over the course of time, I realised that the only thing producing any significant bass was the sub. I tried reconfiguring my set-ups on the amp, but never really got any results. The problem niggled away at me, and listening to plain audio through the speaker package became increasingly wearisome. The sub had be cranked up to pick up all the bass which produced...

dadmancat 25.01.2003 · Read review
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Review of Eltax Liberty 5 Speaker Package

Ideal Bedroom Speakers

Advantages: Compact inexpensive bi-wireable 2 way speaker 90W power handling
Disadvantages: Needs careful placement to avoid boomy bass. Synthetic beechwood finish is rather ersatz

...I brought these Eltax speakers to brighten up one of many bedroom DAB mini hi-fi units that we have in our home. In the main these mini systems tend to come with woefully inadequate speakers and so can be immensely improved by the simple act of upgrading the speakers to something with a semblance of frequency response. I didn't want to pay a lot for a set of speakers which would, in the main, only be heard by guests but I did want to get something halfway decent. A bit of research revealed these units along with several other alternatives were available at around £50 from Richer Sounds. I set off to listen to these Eltax units alongside the Kef Cresta 10, and the Gale 3010. Being a closet anorak and ex BBC engineer - I know that KEF made the driver units for many of the famous BBC designed reference loudspeakers like the LS3...

jennyd60 12.05.2006 · Read review
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Review of Eltax Monitor 3

Small Speakers, Small Sound

Advantages: Small, lightweight, can be used with any mp3 player
Disadvantages: Sound quality isn't great - speakers not very powerful

...Introduction I previously posted a review for the Sanza Fuze mp3 player I bought for my daughter. Well, one of the joys of having a child is you buy them something and then they ask you for accessories, and this was no exception - I needed to get a wall charger separately and she also asked for speakers. Most of the content my daughter has on her mp3 player is on her laptop, for which I bought her high quality speakers that give her excellent sound quality, so when she asked for speakers I told her I was only going to get cheap portable ones rather than spend a lot of money on something that would merely duplicate what her laptop does. Choosing the Speakers My daughter isn't particularly fussy about sound quality, so she was happy to go along with this and I did a little research online in search of something that would fit...

rosebud2001 11.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of JVC SP-A220 Portable Speakers

Eltax Liberty 5 versus Mission 702e

Advantages: fantastic 'big', rich sound. Very good price.
Disadvantages: quite deep, need to be away from wall

...demonstrations of both products (albeit in different shops!), and much to my own astonishment,I opted for the Eltax. I had fully intended on the basis of equal reviews to go for the Mission by virtue of it being from bass-ported not rear like the Eltax. However I couldn't ignore the fact that the Eltax had a considerably superior definition of bass. It was clearer and smoother than the Mission, which was quite bass-heavy and boomy in comparison. The only drawback is that they are both slightly deeper in size than the Mission and rear bass-ported which means they shouldn't be placed directly against the wall. Notwithstanding this however, they are a seriously class act, can handle 100 watts of power and deliver a depth and quality of sound which, if you're used to compact speakers, will take your breath away....

Joekool 11.07.2001 · Read review
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Review of ELTAX SYNPHONY 8

Speakers Corner - The Real Thing

Advantages: a British institution
Disadvantages: not as good as it used to be

...Does everybody who uses the words 'Speakers Corner' (from now on SC) know what they're talking about? That this is really a location: the north eastern corner of Hyde Park, near Marble Arch, London, UK? The words have left the location, aren't only the name of a place any more, they have become a term and are now used worldwide to describe . . . what actually? Certainly politicians in Singapore hadn't studied the subject closely when they decided to allow a SC on September 1, 2000. According to Reuters news agency: "The Singapore government announced it would launch the forum because it wanted greater public involvement, conducted in a 'mature, non-agitated way.'...Speakers must register for a permit and speeches may be recorded by the police . . . The police department said before the corner's opening that uniformed officers...

MALU 05.10.2005 · Read review
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Review of Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, London

Embarassingly competent speakers!

Advantages: Very Cheap, good sound, look fine
Disadvantages: Can look a little cheap, eltax name, expensive to upgrade!

...As a poor student needing to build a small, but reasonably competent hifi system on a tight budget I had low hopes for the Eltax Monitor IIIs that I purchased. After all, despite winning a 5 star what -hifi award, what can you expect from speakers you pick up for £60 from good old Richer sounds. I got 'em home and set them up - first impressions good. They look reasonably smart in the light beech finish, silver details blending well into the overall effect - how can they do it for the money. By compromising on the sound quality...? Once connected up... they sounded distinctly average. But then what did I expect. I had created a near optimally bad system set up. Single wired with cheapo bell wire, a nice free black interconnect between my marantz CD player and amp. One speaker on the floor, the other on a wonderfully rickety shelf...

AlecHodgson 29.09.2003 · Read review
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Review of Eltax Monitor III