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He's not just the president of ASR, he's also a client.

Wait a minute, HEDD seriously expects you to use a vst to correct the response?

Looks reasonable enough. I don't really understand why the horizontal format is so popular though.

By audio professionals do you mean people who work in recording studios?

Right, and the only reason people buy ****** furniture is because they can't afford the real thing.

Architectural designer with experience in high end retail or office interiors and historical restoration. Fake materials are an epidemic in the former, and scorned in the latter.

Jimmy Hendrix was not much of a singer, was he? He was expressive and had some charisma but his guitar playing was a bit better.

Subjectively the audio gd stuff looks like cheap crap. It's designed to look expensive. It doesn't quite pull it off. It's for people who can't afford the real thing. I fully support people who want a cool looking stereo system. We've discussed this at length on ASR. People have very...

To me this is the audio equipment equivalent of a fake watch. It's clearly designed to be big and heavy and impressive looking to imitate audio gear which functions as a status symbol, but has none of the brand cache or desirability to go along with it. The branding tries to imitate...

In general, the thing which limits speaker output is low frequency output. In a passive speaker, it is the excursion of the woofer, and in an active speaker, it is both the woofer excursion and the limits of the amplifier. By asking the speaker to play less low frequency content, the speaker...

If you're looking for genelecs, check out the 'raw' versions they sell. Unpainted aluminum cabinets. Very cool looking.

I also empathize. Improving a product can be difficult because it devalues the previous version. I get the impression that the same guy doing the design is also doing the marketing at Ascend, which is why they should be commended for being so candid about their problems and the way they go about...

Deep high q cancellations are intrinsically sensitive to measurement location. The depth of the null could vary by 10db just by moving the mic around a few inches at these frequencies. Just like when you invert a tweeter that is playing in phase with a woofer over a wide bandwidth. At the...

I think the port issues are exaggerated. Reading his investigation of them, I believe him - this guy knows a lot about speaker measurement and he just spent over $200K on prototyping and test gear because of ASR. If my reading of his account is correct, Klippel themselves were unable to explain...

Big credit due to Ascend in not only investing in their r&d (not just the NFS, but getting a cnc and 3d printer for prototyping) but also writing about their process publicly. I do agree that the port resonances the NFS picks up are not as significant as they appear. Break out an eq and insert...