Neat Acoustics Elite Classic Floorstanding Speaker [Pair]
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The Neat Acoustics Elite is a compact floorstanding loudspeaker that delivers a scale and authority far beyond its size. Designed for real living spaces, it combines a discreet, elegant cabinet with genuinely full-range performance, making it equally at home in smaller and medium-sized rooms.
The Elite plays with natural poise and flow. It fills the room not by force, but by presence — opening a clear, three-dimensional space where every instrument breathes. Voices sound immediate and unforced, bass lines move with grace, and music unfolds with an ease that feels alive and human. Its slender form hides a deeply capable design.
The two-way configuration, tuned and refined by ear, brings together speed, tone and balance in perfect proportion. Hand-built in the north of England, each pair is carefully matched for harmony and coherence, ensuring that what you hear is pure musical connection. Elegant, confident and enduring, the Elite is a loudspeaker that rewards time and attention. It invites you to listen longer — and to rediscover how effortless real music can sound.
The Classic Range draws its spirit from the original Neat Petite — the compact loudspeaker that changed expectations. When it arrived in 1991, it proved that true musical scale and depth could come from a modest enclosure. Small, but never slight, it revealed the full rhythm and emotion of music with effortless flow. That same belief in compact form and honest musicality continues across today’s Classic models — the Petite, the Elite and the Mystique. Each carries the same musical DNA, but with its own character and scale. The Petite is intimate and revealing, ideal for smaller spaces where every detail matters. The Elite builds on that foundation, offering greater openness and presence in a slender floorstanding form. The Mystique extends the experience further, adding depth and composure for those who want a broader soundstage and a deeper sense of space. Together they form the Classic Range — three expressions of the same idea: pure, timeless and deeply musical.
Every Neat loudspeaker is built by hand in our North East England workshop, a place where craftsmanship and musical understanding meet.
Our engineers are listeners first. Each design is refined through careful auditioning, ensuring that every model captures not only precision and balance, but the emotion that makes music feel alive.
From cabinet construction to crossover tuning, every element is shaped by experience and guided by ear. The result is sound that’s natural, expressive, and unmistakably Neat.
Features
- Premium Transducers: It pairs a highly responsive Air Motion Transformer (AMT) tweeter with a 170mm R3 doped paper cone bass-mid driver, a flagship unit borrowed directly from the brand's top-tier Ultimatum range.
- Staggered Dual-Port Tuning: The enclosure features an innovative porting setup with one rear-firing port and one bottom-firing port. This broadband reinforcement layout delivers tight, rhythmic low frequencies.
- Elevated Plinth: The main cabinet sits on machined metal spacers above a rigid acrylic base to give the downward-firing bass port optimal breathing room.
- Unobtrusive Geometry: Uniquely, the cabinet profile is wider than it is deep (900mm x 200mm x 180mm), allowing it to sit gracefully against walls without dominating room acoustics.
- Handmade in UK
Specifications
- Enclosure: 2-way bass reflex with staggered tuning
- Midwoofer: 170mm treated/doped paper-cone unit
- Tweeter: 50mm Air Motion Transformer (AMT) ribbon tweeter
- Dimensions : H 90 x W 20 x D 18cm
- Weight : 13kg (each)
- Frequency : 25Hz - 22kHz
- Sensitivity: 86dB
- Impedance : 8 Ohms nominal / 5 Ohms minimum
- Recommended Amplifier Power : 25 – 150 watts