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Perfect sound combined with a lightweight construction...

When we started developing the Elise Audio System we made it our objective to achieve not only a perfect sound under these severe acoustical conditions but also a target weight of 3.600g in total (incl. all speakers, housings, amplifier, wiring, but except headunit).
Why 3.600g? That’s easy to explain - if you drop the original speakers with their mounting panels and remove the original foot rest (which will be replaced by the subwoofer box) you save 2.600g. Or in other words: If you install the Elise Audio System instead of the original equipment you only add 1.000g to the car’s weight. A figure, which is - from our point of view- very acceptable.
And, to be honest, we are a little bit proud that we finally reached those targets at a very affordable price.

A lot of know-how and idealism was necessary...

One thing was quite obvious from the very beginning: these ambitious targets couldn’t be reached with conventional components and technologies available on the market today. Have a look at the website and you’ll discover that none of the solutions is chosen by accident. Every single item is pushed to the limit!


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é Several hours have been spent for the acoustical setup of the Elise Audio System. From the beginning till the end we used computer-aided simulation systems. An extremely powerful software in combination with an 8-channel sound card and an external 8-channel amplifier (which contains the same output stages as the Elise Audio System itself) is capable to simulate all crossovers, equalizers, allpass filters, highpass filters, etc.




	é Fortunately those days are gone where the acoustical setup had to be made with thousands of electronic parts and a soldering gun. Keyboards and track balls are the contemporary tools. The used software is so powerful that even the values for the resistors, capacitors, etc. are automatically generated. But the required CPU power is tremendous - our 1.7 GHz Pentium4-processor was close to collapse. That’s the reason why we had to use a second PC for the several measuring tools like MLSSA, CLIO, LMS, etc. (and that’s why you can see two monitors and keyboards on the pictures above).