Heavenly Hi-Fi and home cinema are in reach with Elipson's new speakers

10 new Prestige speakers unleashed for Hi-Fi and home cinema upgrades

Elipson Prestige Facet II floorstanding speaker in the corner of a beige room. It's a walnut speaker with four drivers and a tweeter, with a black front panel. It's sitting next to a walnut sideboard with books, candles and a painting on top of the furniture.
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Elipson has refreshed its Prestige Facet range, which includes both Hi-Fi and home cinema speakers.

The range doesn't currently include a new version of the Facet subwoofer, but the rest of the speakers start at just £299.

French high-end audio brand Elipson makes some very impressive and often very expensive speakers, but its new Prestige Facet II range promises heavenly Hi-Fi and home cinema at more affordable price tags.

The cheapest speaker here is just £299, and even the most expensive ones top out at £3,000 per pair.

The Facet II lineup consists of 10 speakers, so there's something for every configuration. There are two bookshelf models, three sets of floorstanders, two centres, a pair for Dolby Atmos height channels, a surround pair, and an LCR speaker.

Strangely, there's no subwoofer – which is made all the more weird as the first generation Facet does include the Facet Sub 8.1.

All of the models feature a new satin finish rather than the first generation's gloss, and there are technical improvements across the range.

A product shot of the Elipson Prestige Facet II bookshelf speakers

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Elipson Prestige Facet II speakers: key features and price

The three floorstanding models have new decoupling feet that promise to be visually lighter but mechanically stronger, delivering better isolation from the floor for better low-frequency reproduction.

The Facet speaker cabinets are more rigid, and the passive crossover has been completely redesigned with a host of high-quality audiophile-spec components including new capacitors, resistors and inductors.

Elipson says this delivers better channel decoupling, a smoother frequency response and a more coherent and natural soundstage. All of the speakers are wired internally with oxygen-free copper.

There are three finishes to choose from, all in satin: black, white, and black with walnut.

The UK and European prices for the Facet II range are:

  • 6B Bookshelf: £499 / €549 per pair
  • 8B Bookshelf: £699 / €799 per pair
  • 14F Floorstanding: £1,000 / €1,299 per pair
  • 24F Floorstanding: £2,000 / €2,399 per pair
  • 34F Floorstanding: £3,000 / €3,299 per pair
  • 11C Centre: £299 / €349 each
  • 14C Centre: £450 / €549 each
  • 6ATM Atmos: £450 / €499 per pair
  • 7SR Surround: £429 / €499 per pair
  • 14LCR LCR: £429 / €469 each

You can find out more about the Prestige Facet II range on Elipson's own website, including details on how to order the speakers.

Carrie Marshall
Carrie Marshall

Writer, musician and broadcaster Carrie Marshall has been covering technology since 1998 and is particularly interested in how tech can help us live our best lives. Her CV is a who’s who of magazines, newspapers, websites and radio programmes ranging from T3, Techradar and MacFormat to the BBC, Sunday Post and People’s Friend. Carrie has written more than a dozen books, ghost-wrote two more and co-wrote seven more books and a Radio 2 documentary series; her memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards. When she’s not scribbling, Carrie is the singer in Glaswegian rock band Unquiet Mind (unquietmindmusic).

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