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The All New Uni-Fi Reference

Defining the standard for performance and style

The All New UniFi Reference

Defining the standard for performance and style

Say hello to the Uni-Fi Reference.

Building on the success and performance of the Uni-Fi 2.0 series, Uni-Fi Reference is not merely a name, but the defining characteristic of a product that has been refined for maximum performance and style.

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Uni-Fi 2.0

"The reason why concentric drivers are so incredible when done well, is the UB52s ability to place holographic images front and center"

New Record Day

Uni-Fi 2.0

"Being concise with my words, both the UB52s and the UF52s are perhaps the most balanced production speakers I have heard anywhere near this price point"

Sean Heisler

Uni-Fi 2.0

"...by 48 hours, wow, the treble was well open and in balance with sparkle and air"

More Than Just A New Uni-FI.

Reference | Tweaked To Perfection

Uni-Fi 2.0

$699.98

UB52 Bookshelf Speaker

3-Way Speaker
5.25″ Aluminum Cast Chassis Woofer
Front Firing Vents
Enhanced Bracing

Uni-Fi Reference

$1,199.98

UBR62 Bookshelf Speaker

3-Way Speaker
6.5″ Aluminum Cast Chassis Woofer
Dual Flared Slot Vents
Enhanced Bracing

Debut Reference

$699.98

DBR62 Bookshelf Speaker

3-Way Speaker
6.5″ Aramid Fiber Woofer
Dual Flared Slot Vents
Enhanced Bracing

Beautiful, Inside And Out

Improved Aesthetics

Leap Into High End Audio

Improved 3-Way Design

Sing In Perfect Harmony

Improved Crossover

Reduced Cabinet Vibration
& Coloration

All New Full Perimeter Bracing

Improved Bass Dynamics

All New Dual Flared Slot Vents

The Strength Of Aluminum

Improved Drivers

Beautiful, Inside and Out

Improved Aesthetics

Leap Into High End Audio

Improved 3-Way Design

Sing In Perfect Harmony

Improved Crossover

Reduced Cabinet Vibration & Coloration

All New Full Perimeter Bracing

Improved Bass Dynamics

All New Dual Flared Slot Vents

The Strength of Aluminum

Improved Drivers

Improved Aesthetics

Reference Aesthetics

Improved Aesthetics

Reference Aesthetics

For some, looking good is as important as sounding good.

The Uni-Fi Reference has been redesigned for maximum performance and style, so it can look as good as it sounds.

Improved 3-Way Design

Leap Into High End Audio

Would you ask two people to do a three person job?

Most speakers in this price range have one driver tuned for highs and another tuned for both mids and lows. The Uni-Fi Reference has three - one for each frequency range.

With an entirely new midrange driver and newly designed cast chassis, the Uni-Fi Reference is truly a step into high end audio.

Improved Crossover

Listen to a Perfect Harmony

A conductor is to an orchestra, what a crossover is to a 3-way speaker - a guide to make many sound like one.

Our improved crossover blends the Uni-Fi Reference's three unique drivers into one harmonious sound.

Enjoy the luxury of a 3-way speaker at an unmatched price.

Pure Bliss. No Rattling.

Full Perimeter Bracing

A supercar isn't just measured by how much power it produces - it's measured by how well it handles the power.

The all new Uni-Fi Reference adds full perimeter bracing, allowing you to push it harder with significantly reduced cabinet vibration and coloration.

Improved Bass Dynamics

Dual Flared Slot Vents

Improved Bass Dynamics

Dual Flared Slot Vents

A dedicated woofer optimized with all our newly developed dual flared slot vents.

Utilizing both internal and external flares, the reference series slot vents allow for lower noise and higher bass output for improved low frequency dynamics.

Improved Drivers

Aluminum Drivers with Cast Chassis

Drastically improving low-end reproduction, our newly developed bass driver delivers improved linearity and the best low frequency response out of any of our previous Uni-Fi speakers.

With a single piece compound curvature aluminum cone and a large rear vented magnet, the new 6.5" woofer with cast chassis will not disappoint.

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Product Specifications

Speaker Type: 3-Way Bass Reflex
Frequency Response: 47Hz—35000Hz
Nominal Impedance: 6 Ohms
Sensitivity: 85db
Crossover Frequency: 240 / 1800Hz
Maximum Power Input: 140 Watts
Tweeter: 1" Soft Dome
Midrange: 4" Aluminum
Woofers: 2 x 5.25" Aluminum
Cabinet: CARB2 Rated MDF
Cabinet Finish: Satin White with Oak Sides or Satin Black with Walnut Sides
Port: Dual Flared Slots
Binding Posts: Bi-Wire 5-Way
Dimensions (WxHxD): 20.75" x 7.28" x 13.15"
Net Weight: 29.04 lbs

Speaker Type: 3-Way Bass Reflex
Frequency Response: 41Hz—35000Hz
Nominal Impedance: 6 Ohms
Sensitivity: 85db
Crossover Frequency: 260 / 1800Hz
Maximum Power Input: 140 Watts
Tweeter: 1" Soft Dome
Midrange: 4" Aluminum
Woofers: 6.5"" Aluminum
Cabinet: CARB2 Rated MDF
Cabinet Finish: Satin White with Oak Sides or Satin Black with Walnut Sides
Port: Dual Flared Slots
Binding Posts: Bi-Wire 5-Way
Dimensions (WxHxD): 8.19" x 14.13" x 13.15"
Net Weight: 23.54 lbs Each

Speaker Type: 3-Way Bass Reflex
Frequency Response: 40Hz—35000Hz
Nominal Impedance: 6 Ohms
Sensitivity: 86db
Crossover Frequency: 220 / 1800Hz
Maximum Power Input: 140 Watts
Tweeter: 1" Soft Dome
Midrange: 4" Aluminum
Woofers: 3 x 5.25" Aluminum
Cabinet: CARB2 Rated MDF
Cabinet Finish: Satin White with Oak Sides or Satin Black with Walnut Sides
Port: Dual Flared Slots
Binding Posts: Bi-Wire 5-Way
Dimensions (WxHxD): 7.28" x 39.18" x 13.31"
Net Weight: 52.36 lbs

The All New Uni-Fi Reference.

All New Uni-Fi Reference

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Bookshelf

UBR62

$1,199.98 / pair

Center

UCR52

$699.98 / each

Floorstanding

UFR52

$1,199.98 / each

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Answers To Some Frequently Asked Questions

In general, it is a driver where the tweeter and bass/midrange driver have been combined into one compound unit.

The tweeter is mounted at the apex of the cone, sitting directly on top of the bass driver pole piece, where the dust-cap would normally be found. The result of this is to match the off-axis characteristics of both drivers so that the sound is more even across the frequency range. The imaging will then be better, the sound character will be more consistent throughout the listening area, and will be les influenced by the acoustics of the listening space.

Compared to a 2-Way speaker, a 3-Way speaker reduces distortion and produces a clearer midrange and more dynamic bass performance.

It achieves this because the drivers are operating over a narrower frequency range. As a result they can be better optimized for their intended purpose. In particular, the bass/midrange driver is no longer required to reproduce both bass ad mid frequencies simultaneously. This reduces the total amount of power going into each driver

The advantage of aluminum for the bass driver is its good balance between performance and cost. It is easily formed, consistent in production and has a good ratio of stiffness to weight.

More exotic materials have very little further advantage in this size of bass driver. With the midrange driver, we generally find ourselves working with materials that are not rigid over their operating range.

For example in the Debut speaker range, we use Aramid fiber. This gives us the capability of carefully controlling the cone flexing to get the best performance. This difficulty in design is somewhat ameliorated by having a three way speaker, and also now allows us to change to an approach that eliminates flexing within the operating range.

Aluminum, as optimized in the Uni-Fi midrange, has its first flexure mode at a high 8kHz which results in excellent performance.

The $64,000 question! This is so difficult to answer with any certainty. It is so dependent upon the particular circumstances of your listening room. There have been some attempts to give rules of placement, such as the rule of thirds. This however in practice is just so limiting. Very few rooms are of a regular shape, and added to that are the different acoustic properties of the walls, the floor, the windows and of openings into other rooms, that blanket rules are largely wishful thinking.

Some clear pointers are that:
1. Putting the speakers closer to walls and corners will give you more bass, and quite possibly too much bass
2. Location the listening seat will give you more bass, and maybe too much
3. Listening dead center in the room will likely give you a big null in the bass at some frequencies and result in uneven reproduction of bass notes.

The simple answer is that there is no simple solution. Start by placing the speakers about 10’ apart, listen around 12’ away, keep the speakers around 3’ from rear and side walls, listen around 2/3rds of the way down the room, then just keep experimenting. Listening to some music with good, consistent bass that explores the full range of the bass frequencies, and then keep moving the speakers inch by inch and listening for the most even reproduction of each bass note. It can be a long involved process, but is worth it in the long term.

There is no simple answer because it depends on your associated equipment and the listening environment. First let me say that the answer is applicable to both movies and home theater. Typically, bookshelf speakers have limited bass output, both in terms of frequency extension and bass dynamic capability.

Clearly, the small size of a bookshelf limits the size of bass driver that can be accommodated and so limits how much air the driver can move. To reproduce low frequencies, we need to move a lot of air.

Secondly there is a relationship between the cabinet size, the low frequency extension and the efficiency that is attainable, governed by the pesky laws of physics. One cannot have bass extension, high efficiency and a small box. If we therefore limit the size of box, as in a bookshelf speaker, we must give up efficiency or bass response. Obviously for a floor stander we have greater cabinet volume along with the capability of accommodating either larger drivers or multiple smaller drivers, so the limitations of the bookshelf are largely overcome. We can have somewhat higher efficiency, or better bass response and more bass output.

So, do we need all of the gains that the floorstander can give us? This will depend upon musical tastes, how loud you like to listen, how big is your listening space, how far away from the speaker you listen, and how powerful your amplifier is. What we do attempt in our designs is to give the bookshelf speakers almost the same bass extension as the floorstanders, so that you are still able to hear most of your music, just at a lower maximum volume level.

Stereo imaging is the illusion created of a spread of sound between the two speakers that mimics the sound heard at the original performance, or that is created in the studio. It typically has parameters that include perceived width, height, depth, specificity and instrumental separation. Some systems and technologies can give a better image than others (our concentric drivers for instance), and some listeners judge this parameter less important than the musical performance itself, such as perceived rhythm and timing, musical communication etc.

Speaker impedance is an indication of how much power will be drawn from the amplifier. For a given voltage from the amplifier, a lower impedance will result in a higher current draw and more power being delivered form the amplifier to the speaker. All other things being equal, higher impedance is a good thing. Of course, all things are not equal!

The speaker with the lower impedance will always sound louder when directly compared to one with higher impedance, so this is often a way that manufacturers can gain some advantage in such comparisons. However, as stated earlier, there is no free lunch. It’s louder because it is taking more power from the amplifier.

Unfortunately, there is not a good, easy way to characterize the speakers’ impedance or its demands placed upon the amplifier with music signals.

The most universally accepted definition simply states that the minimum impedance should be no lower than 80% of the rated impedance, For an 8 ohm speaker, this means 6.4 ohms minimum and for a 4 ohm speaker 3.2 ohms minimum. However, not only do many manufacturers ignore this basic specification, it doesn’t state over how much of the frequency range the impedance stays close to the minimum.

One that only occasionally dips low will place very different demands upon the amplifier than one that is always close to the minimum. Therefore it is not easy to state unequivocally whether a particular speaker will work on a particular amplifier. However, we do stay within the accepted limits: the minimum impedance does not drop below 80% of the rated impedance, and we try and minimize how much of the frequency range that it is at that minimum value.

You may well get away without using a subwoofer at all, even with our bookshelf speakers. All our speakers are designed to have an extended bass response, giving up some efficiency in order to achieve this.

If your listening habits are predominantly with music that doesn’t have super low bass recorded, or not at high levels, then you can enjoy the simplicity of just the main pair of speakers.

However, if you have a large listening space, like to listen to music very loud or to music that contains lots of low bass or want to use the speakers as part of a home theater setup then a subwoofer would be advantageous.

ELAC Americas Inc. warrants to the original purchaser that this product be free from defects and or workmanship, unless otherwise stated in product description, for a period of 90 days from the original date of purchase.

During this time period, repair or replacement of parts will be free of charge to the original owner (See Limitations). Shipping to and return from the repair center will be the responsibility of the original purchaser.

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The All New Uni-Fi Reference

The All New UniFi Reference

New Record Day

New Record Day

Sean Heisler

More Than Just A New Uni-FI.

More Than Just A New Uni-FI.

Uni-Fi 2.0

$699.98

Uni-Fi Reference

$1,199.98

Debut Reference

$699.98

Improved Aesthetics

Reference Aesthetics

Improved Aesthetics

Reference Aesthetics

Improved 3-Way Design

Improved 3-Way Design

Leap Into High End Audio

Leap Into High End Audio

Improved Crossover

Improved Crossover

Listen to a Perfect Harmony

Listen to a Perfect Harmony

Pure Bliss. No Rattling.

Pure Bliss. No Rattling.

Full Perimeter Bracing

Full Perimeter Bracing

Improved Bass Dynamics

Dual Flared Slot Vents

Improved Bass Dynamics

Dual Flared Slot Vents

Improved Drivers

Improved Drivers

Aluminum Drivers with Cast Chassis

Aluminum Drivers with Cast Chassis

Take a peek at theUni-Fi Reference Lookbook

Take a peek at theUni-Fi Reference Lookbook

Product Specifications

The All New Uni-Fi Reference.

All New Uni-Fi Reference

Bookshelf

Center

Floorstanding

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Take a peek at the
Uni-Fi Reference Lookbook

Take a peek at the
Uni-Fi Reference Lookbook