Recent content by MarkS

And also MoFi didn't tell us, just gave us a bunch of audiophoolspeak. Slopes are almost certainly the same. The crossover frequency might have been tweaked, but really should not have been if the original R&D for that particular coax driver and cabinet (which are unchanged) had been properly done.

New addition today: Ascilab C6B speakers.

OK, got the C6B's out of the box and quickly set up on some 24" bar stools. Running them full range out of a 60W Lyngdorf TDAI-1120, sub off, room correction and all EQ off. And ... well, they sound amazing for the minimal set up. I'm very impressed.

If you have an amp sensitive to the impedance hump, you should spend the money on a new amp.

Permanently puts me off ever considering their products.

My beef is that there is no explanation of how or why the new crossover is improved, other than the treble switch (which is irrelevant to anyone with PEQ, which anyone spending this much on speakers should have).

My C6B's, ordered on June 14, are scheduled to arrive here in California tomorrow. :)

Cables do not change the sound. Save your money.

I am in a position of being able to assess his multiple sworn statements over the decades that digital totally sucked and that only 100% pure analog, like those sweet sweet MoFi pressings, sounded any good at all, and that the contamination of digital was completely obvious to anyone with ears...

C'mon Matt, you know better. Fremer never looks at the measurements which he does not do himself. Amir listens after measurements and Erin listens both before and after, and both try to correlate what they hear with what they measure. Yes, but knowing you are makes a big difference IMO. You can...

The difference is that Amir & Erin understand the pitfall of sighted bias and take steps to mitigate it. Fremer (like most others in the audiophool world) flatly disbelieves in even the possibility of sighted bias. IMO, this makes his reactions to what he hears (or imagines he hears) to be far...

Kal, can you share your listening distance and ear height for this system? Thanks!

I did not realize that the coax driver on the Blades is so much higher than it is on the Reference series. Why does KEF do this? I would think that the height of this driver is a critical design element and that it would be the same on all speakers (which I believe it is across the Reference and...

Ha ha! Ironically that's one of the most covered songs ever. Here's one of my favorite covers of it, by The Iron Cross Band in Romania; I like this version better than the original:

"We sit about 7 feet from the TV, and it is a small room with a shared wall" The Ascends are fine. Unless you plan to do some listening while standing up, at that distance vertical directivity is a complete non-issue. Also, one sub is plenty and you do not need DLBC with it. (You do need DL.)...