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Elite Fixed AcousticPro1080 Screen Highlights
• Black mesh backing allows screen to perform well, even mounted in front of a white or near white surfaced wall
• Very limited loss of sound quality (high frequencies)
• Texture is more coarse than some other acoustic screen surfaces
• Elite Screens MSRP (list) prices seem to be well below the low street selling prices of other name brands like Da-lite
and Draper. A quick comparison finds that Da-lite acoustic screens, for example, can sell for up to 50% more than
the Elite with AcousticPro1080 surface
• Very slight color shift toward yellow, (very correctable)
Elite AcousticPro1080 Screen Specifications
Technology: Woven white surface acoustic material, 0.3mm perforations, square (but off-angle) pattern, black mesh backing
Gain: 1.0
Acoustic Properties: Maximum loss of 2db @ 20Khz
Warranty: 2 years parts and labor
Special Features
Unlike many other manufacturers, the Elite's long side frame pieces come in two pieces each, instead of single pieces.
This allows the entire screen to be packed into a much smaller box, one that avoids the high extra shipping costs normally
associated with fixed frame screens, due to their size requiring significant "oversized" box shipping charges.
Assembling the ezFrame AcousticPro1080 fixed wall screen
It sure seems simple enough. I, however, am not one who looks forward to
doing such things, so, of course, I convinced Elite to deliver the screen,
along with someone who would assemble it in my presence. This works
because Elite Screens is located less than an hour from my location.
Basically it took about 15 minutes for the screen to be assembled. Dave
Rodgers from Elite did all the work, while I watched. First step after unboxing
the components (a nice small box), was to connect the pieces of the
frame. Remember, Elite instead of using single long pieces for the frame,
breaks the long sections down into two pieces.
After the frame was assembled, the frame was placed face down on my
floor. The screen surface and the black acoustic cloth were laid on top,
and fastened into place by several dozen little white clips. The large
number of clips is to insure even tension so that the screen surface remains perfectly flat.
It really was that simple. If I had done it, I would have run out of patience and probably tried to get everything to stay in
place, using a minimum of clips, and then wondered why the screen ended up with waves in it. Dave does good work,
the screen is very flat and taut.
Bottom line: Putting the screen together should not be a challenge for those willing to try.
Elite AcousticPro1080 fixed screen Image Properties
As mentioned in the overview, I did notice a slight shift towards a
yellow/gold with the screen, and you can see the difference (though
exaggerated) between it and the very neutral Stewart Firehawk G3,
in the photo of the two screens with no image on them, back near
the top of this page. When viewing normal material, however, it really
is far more difficult to spot any color shift compared to my Firehawk
G3.
To the right is a photo of James Bond, from Casino Royale. You can
see the narrow top part of the image is on the Firehawk, the lower
part, on the Elite. Pretty hard to spot the color shift. You'll also notice
some other differences, varying brightness, and contrast in the
image. That however is due to the Firehawk being a high contrast
gray surface, compared to a basic white surface.
Another good "split image" shot is this one of some football "signage"
from an HDTV source. It's obvious that the two surfaces are very close:
The screen lived up to its claimed wide viewing angle. There was no
hotspotting, and brightness appears uniform even from wider viewing
angles than anyone would want normally want to sit at.
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