Elac Navis ARF51 Powered Floorstanding Speaker

Description

ELAC’s new Navis Series answers every minimalist audiophile’s dream of a no-compromise powered speaker driven by in-class amplifiers that are truly deserving of the name “high end.” While most powered speakers rely on Class D digital designs, ELAC engineers build in 300 watts of pure analog amplification  for maximum power and exceptional sound. Add the Discovery Connect wireless transmitter to your system, and Navis becomes a wireless speaker that lets you enjoy streaming content without a cable in sight.

Features

The ELAC Navis ARF-51 features a true 3-way speaker design, carefully engineered to deliver precise sound reproduction across the entire frequency spectrum. At the top end, a 1-inch soft dome tweeter ensures detailed and natural high frequencies, capturing every nuance with clarity and finesse. This is paired with a 4-inch aluminum midrange woofer, custom-designed for the Navis series, which handles vocals and instruments with remarkable precision and tonal accuracy.

For the low end, the speaker houses three 5.25-inch aluminum woofers, delivering deep, punchy bass with excellent control and minimal distortion. These drivers work in perfect harmony thanks to the 300 watts of built-in analog amplification, with separate amplifiers dedicated to each driver section 160 watts for the woofers, 100 watts for the midrange, and 40 watts for the tweeter. This tri-amped system ensures that each component operates at its full potential, providing clean, powerful output across all frequencies.

With a frequency response ranging from 43 Hz to 28 kHz, the ARF-51 is capable of reproducing everything from deep sub-bass to sparkling treble, making it a full-range speaker system ideal for both music and home theater applications.

Powerful Trifecta

Inside each Navis Bookshelf Loudspeaker is a Tri-Amp Pure Analog Amplifier, employing three separate amps for each transducer a 160-watt BASH AB amplifier for the woofer, a 100-watt BASH AB amplifier for the midrange, and a 40-watt Class AB amplifier for the tweeter. A total amplifier power of 300 watts ensures that each transducer is optimally and amply powered, eliminating clipping and crossover distortion, and driving each transducer with authority. Specs like a 110 dBA signal-to-noise ratio and 100 uV noise floor could only come from such audiophile-quality amps!

All New Custom Designed Midrange/Tweeter

One reason the Navis sounds so natural is because of its in-house developed transducer, a 4-inch aluminum midrange driver with a concentrically mounted 1-inch soft-dome tweeter. Combined, this signature configuration lets Navis set the performance standard for its class.

Flexible Connections

Local inputs include balanced XLR, RCA and Wireless, when used with ELAC’s Discovery Connect wireless transmitter to stream Discovery, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth, AirPlay and Roon. Just switch Wireless “Off” for a no-compromise analog input and output.

Specifications

Physical Specifications