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Yes. Your work is hugely valuable to me as well as many others. Please continue!

I won't be buying anything from Tekton as a result of this. A good speaker designer should be very interested in accurate measurement of their product with a view to improving future designs. They are evidently not interested in better designs.

While this is not a great speaker, I had not previously noticed this review as I'm not currently looking for floorstanding speakers. The response from Tekton has now got my notice and I'm sure many more are now reading this review. This has been a huge waste of Amirs valuable time and energy he...

Is that line out or headphone?

I think we should all applaud Amir's generosity in providing this site and his tests and reviews. I hope it keeps on being worthwhile and satisfying to keep at it while dealing with some of the negative aspects! :)

Yes I think the compromise that Ascend have made between sensitivity, impedance, frequency response and distortion is a very good one for the price. You will need an amp with a good power output to play these loud but the amp won't need to handle low impedance. This should fit well with many...

Yes. If the impedance is lower then more power will be drawn from the amp if everything else is equal. Which can mean that the speaker can use that power to play louder or waste the power as heat or more likely both. This may cause more distortion in the amplifier and also more distortion in the...

OK. I'm going to try. The amplifier supplies voltage and current. The ideal is that the voltage at the speaker terminals is a perfect copy of the shape of input signal to the amp but at proportionally higher voltages, regardless of current (amps). What is taxing about low impedance in a...

Amazing! I'm wondering if they sell to the UK? These are in the right price bracket to be my new desktop speakers. Not sure if they are made for nearfield use though. Also not available in white plus they look very similar to my existing pair so my wife would be wondering where the $1000 went...

So you can test Audio equipment with a Topping E2X2? What else would I need to test line out and headphone out of a PC or even a small amplifier?

I tip my hat to you for the interesting and informative review. :cool: I don't have any use for the product itself though.

There's quite a range of opinions on this forum! I wouldn't use the headphone out of a motherboard to drive high end low impedance headphones at high volume. However, I'm not trying to do that. I don't mind the low power output that much as I don't want to have my headphones very loud. I want...

Where is the nice volume control and indicator lights on that? Those dongles are not comparable in physical functionality so it stands to reason they would be cheaper. I wouldn't want one of those for my desktop use whatever the SINAD is...

Fairly confident I can hear the difference in this case!

I didn't make any notes so I can't remember exactly but I think I did try it at different volume levels. Possibly if I had known how it measures I could have managed the volume level better to get the best from it. I think I did adjust the player volume level down and turn up the speakers to...

I've not had any pops or clicks from mine or anything audibly bad. I'm somewhat satisfied that what I have on my PC motherboard is good enough for me not to hear the difference from the best DACs. That is without having seen any measurements to prove that. I wonder what the cheapest equipment is...

I used this as a line out briefly before the DAC HAT arrived for my Pi based streamer and the distortion was definitely audible. This gives us a benchmark for a Sinad of 56 as so bad you can easily hear it. Somewhere a little north of this the noise and distortion become inaudible.

I'm wondering if this would have any audible difference from the headphone out of my PC. I chose a PC motherboard with hi-fi sound built in and the specs looked well beyond audible noise or distortion. Have any motherboard headphone outputs or line outs been tested here with an Audio Precision...

I really appreciate what you do. From my point of view I would still really value your work if you only published half the tests on each device as I still don't understand all of them. I rely on your interpretation of the notes, such as 16bits of distortion free range=good etc.. It's more...

Yes that is a very good point. I've no idea exactly how many units they sell of each model but it's not that many. I had a quick look and they have a Revenue of $22.7 Million which might sound like a lot but it's nothing compared to Apple and if their most popular model costs ~$50k that's just...