Introduction - What is the Neat Elite Classic?
The Neat Elite Classic is a two way floorstanding speaker. Like the all conquering Petite Classic, it is a considered revision of a design that dates back to the early years of Neat Acoustics and that continued on sale for a very long time indeed. Unlike the Petite, the Elite has arrived back as a line model without an intervening special edition to test the water.
It’s also important to stress nice and early that the Elite is not simply a floorstanding Petite. We’ll cover this at greater length in the relevant section but any of you reading this and thinking “well it’s just a bigger version of a speaker that got ten out of ten, of course it’ll be good”, you should be aware there is more going on here that simply making a bigger Petite. It’s also worth noting that I know a few people who, while fond of the Petite, think that the Elite is the best embodiment of what makes a Neat a Neat so there are some positive omens too.
Ultimately, as before, we need to establish if a spot of sentimentality is what this part of the market needs right now or if speakers that came into being this century have a performance edge over the Neat. Do some of the distinctive design features still give this little floostander the edge or should you be swayed by more conventional engineering? Let’s cue it up and see what it can do.
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