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Elite Screens Aeon CLR 3 103" vs Elite Screens Aeon CLR
Elite's own CLR ladder, $728 vs $415.95 — which should you buy?
The short answer
Buy the Elite Screens Aeon CLR for the money — $415.95 tracked for the same brand's 103" 16:9 CLR material, with the frame construction actually stated. Buy the Aeon CLR 3 if you want the gain figure on paper: its 0.8 is stated where the original's is not, and at $728 tracked it sits at roughly half its own $1,400 list.
Same brand, same 103-inch 16:9 ceiling-light-rejecting job, $312 apart. The interesting part isn't what the two spec sheets say — it's that each one states almost exactly what the other leaves blank.
Reading the numbers honestly
A stated-vs-unstated inversion, in full: the pricier Aeon CLR 3 states its 0.8 gain but leaves its screen form factor and frame material unstated in our data, while the cheaper original Aeon CLR states a fixed-frame design with an aluminum frame but publishes no gain figure at all. Neither sheet is complete; they're incomplete in opposite places. One pricing note: the CLR 3's $728 tracked price sits against a $1,400 MSRP — roughly half list — while the CLR's $415.95 has no recorded MSRP to discount against.
Specifications · side by side · per-field provenance● SOURCE-TRACKED
| Spec | Elite Screens Aeon CLR 3 103" | Elite Screens Aeon CLR |
|---|
| Price | $728 | $416 |
| Brand | Elite Screens | Elite Screens |
| Diagonal Inches | 103 | 103 |
| Aspect Ratio | 16:9 | 16:9 |
| Gain | 0.8 | not stated |
| Material Type | CLR ceiling light rejecting | CLR ceiling light rejecting |
| Acoustically Transparent | No | not stated |
| Screen Type | not stated | fixed frame |
| Viewable Width Inches | not stated | 89.2 |
| Viewable Height Inches | not stated | 50.2 |
| Frame Material | not stated | aluminum |
Shaded rows differ · green dot = lab-measured · amber = manufacturer-verified · blue = retailer/community-reported · grey = estimated · “not stated” means exactly that
The verdict
Buy the Elite Screens Aeon CLR for the money — $415.95 tracked for the same brand's 103" 16:9 CLR material, with the frame construction actually stated. Buy the Aeon CLR 3 if you want the gain figure on paper: its 0.8 is stated where the original's is not, and at $728 tracked it sits at roughly half its own $1,400 list.
Value for a UST pairingElite Screens Aeon CLR — Same 103" 16:9 CLR-class material for $312 less as tracked.
Knowing the optics before you buyElite Screens Aeon CLR 3 103" — The CLR 3 states its 0.8 gain; the original's gain is unstated in our data — stated beats assumed.
Knowing the build before you buyElite Screens Aeon CLR — The CLR states fixed-frame aluminum construction; the CLR 3's form factor and frame material are unstated in our data.
What our normalized data addsNOT ON THE SPEC SHEETS
- The disclosure inversion made explicit: the $728 CLR 3 states gain (0.8) but not form factor or frame; the $415.95 CLR states fixed-frame + aluminum but no gain — each sheet fills exactly the blank the other leaves.
- Both are 103" 16:9 ceiling-light-rejecting (CLR) materials per our normalized fields — the core UST-screen job is the same class on paper, which is what makes the $312 gap a disclosure question rather than a size or material one.
- The CLR 3 tracks at $728 against a stated $1,400 MSRP (~48% off list); the CLR's $415.95 has no recorded MSRP — one discount is verifiable, the other can't be computed.
- The CLR 3 records acoustically transparent = FALSE — a stated no, not a gap (our booleans are three-state) — so in-wall speakers behind this screen are off the table by its own sheet.
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