Not every speaker + receiver combination is ideal and the receiver settings can often have an impact.
There are also many 'high-end speakers' that don't sound much better than my F&D speakers for 69 EUR.
But ELAC does not belong to this group.
This is what these 69 EUR F&D speakers sound like.
While that is true, i dont play the speaker / Amplifier game, if you got good speakers and a good amp its a great match.
IF you go into "audiophile" land, then yeah u can buy a cool sounding speaker and pair it with a warm sounding amp to get an worse expirience then just 2 good products, but u can say u matched ur speaker and amp.
Personally none of my ... 30 amps i own have a certain characterstic, when it comes to DAC or Amp its not hard. But u cant get a consumer audiophile thingy because those just plain suck no matter what u pay, actually it gets worse when u spend more.
Like McIntosh, those things are build great and the overall design would be pretty damn good ( still way to expensive but great to look at ) if they didnt sound their amps, lol, that kinda trash doesnt get linked up into my chain, no sir.
When it comes to the ELACs, well, sure. Iam not saying there arent speakers that cost more and are worse or something. But ELACs are just plain dead when it comes to dynamic. They may have some dynamic at the bottom end because they use a
one frequency port design that gives some oompf. This is not a knock against elac because i can say the same about ... lets take the Wilson Audio Chronosonic XVX. Got to listen to it 3 times, all 3 times there was nothing exciting about the speaker.
No single atribute was better then average, but well nothing was worse then average as well. Thats why i said, its DIY for me. Because i cannot afford the more expensive speakers and even if i could, i dont know a single speaker that u can just buy
thats better then a 6/10. The best one ive heared so far are JBL Eversest DD66000.
Listened to those 2 times and while its plainfully obvious it has alot of problems at the crossover, otherwise they sound pretty good. When they try to go from the Woofer to the mid horn, they just messed something up big time.
To your recording, well yeah, cant really say much about a recording. to many influences like your room / the mic / the video compression / my dac ( or any dac at all ) / my headphones.
So i cant really say anything but what i did take away from it fairly quickly is that the base seems boomy and a one note design as well. personally i just dislike one note designs. If you listen to them for 2 Minutes in a showroom its "great"
because then the speaker just has more output at the bottom end, but you lose all the detail since ur just pushing a +3db or sometimes even way more at the tuning frequency. I prefer flat sound, gives the most detail.
But u cant have a single component ( real crossover if it isnt done to perfection ) that kills dynamic because if you cant have insane dynamic "flat" sounds boring as well.
. Anyway last year I bought a used Onkyo Atmos receiver and some used tannoy Hts 101 speakers( plus 2 extra satellites) from eBay for £250 delivered. I came from a Sony Atmos sound bar and the difference is astounding. Obviously you can get much better if you have the money but it really does sound really great. 
