Ascilab A6B Speaker Review

[ayane]

@AsciLab Any chance the A6B or even S6B will also be made available without a crossover for bi-wiring/bi-amping (maybe via speakon), so as to be used in an active configuration?

I sincerely think the S6B represent the pinnacle of engineering for a bookshelf speaker. Nonetheless, I am concerned about heat (and, consequently, longevity) given the inefficiency of passive speakers, in addition to other inevitable limitations (such as temperature coefficients, voltage-dependent nonlinearities, etc) that can be mitigated by eliminating the passive components. While I'm sure your crossovers are the best they can possibly be (I'm guessing they were co-optimized with the internal box geometry à la numerical analysis?), I'm also sure I'm not the only one here curious about this!

 

[AsciLab]

I sincerely think the S6B represent the pinnacle of engineering for a bookshelf speaker. Nonetheless, I am concerned about heat (and, consequently, longevity) given the inefficiency of passive speakers, in addition to other inevitable limitations (such as temperature coefficients, voltage-dependent nonlinearities, etc) that can be mitigated by eliminating the passive components. While I'm sure your crossovers are the best they can possibly be (I'm guessing they were co-optimized with the internal box geometry à la numerical analysis?), I'm also sure I'm not the only one here curious about this!

As you can see from the rear of the A6B and S6B, the enclosure has been designed with an active version in mind. However, the exact release date for the active versions of the A6B and S6B has not yet been determined.

 

[Chaos01]

Will there be grills for the woofers and pr for the A6B available, Like for the C6B?

Otherwise it will make no Sense to buy these for the next 6? years, with a child at Home, for me. Or for people with cats and so on.

 

[Purité Audio]

You can easily teach your own children its other people’s you have to watch out for.
Keith

 

[Waxx]

Very well engineered speakers, but ugly as **** in my book. So no option for me. But as i don't need new speakers, it's a non issue. But on technical level, this is very impressive for a passive speaker of that size. It surely can stand next to Genelec and Neumann on that (top) level.

 

[Gorgonzola]

AMIR.

Since testedaudio.com is the N.A. distributor of AsciLab's speakers I'm hoping you can tell me where I purchase their speakers in Canada I can buy them, or otherwise, buy them without U.S. tariffs that are applicable?

I have visited the testedaudio.com site and not found information on any Canadian retailers.

 

[Coltr@ne]

singular nickname, or is it a Google Translate problem?

 

[amirm]

We are their rep for all of north America including Canada. We provide local pre and post sale support in exchange for the tariff.

 

[Paul7777x]

AMIR.

Since testedaudio.com is the N.A. distributor of AsciLab's speakers I'm hoping you can tell me where I purchase their speakers in Canada I can buy them, or otherwise, buy them without U.S. tariffs that are applicable?

I have visited the testedaudio.com site and not found information on any Canadian retailers.

Have you any friends or family in Europe?

They could buy them here and send them to Canada.

 

[Paul7777x]

Is no one else concerned that Ascilab have bitten off far to big a bite with so many models and variations, far too soon and with no firm delivery dates? And possibly the same for spare parts?

I’ve seen many a business collapse after a relatively short time for reasons related to the above.

 

[Purité Audio]

In my experience Ascilab state a delivery time-frame and have up to now have fulfilled that commitment.
Keith

 

[Waxx]

Ascilabs is a part of a bigger Korean company with a long history, called CTI that is specialised in acoustics and speaker calibration for all kind of public and private places (mainly conference halls and movietheatres) with a solid reputation in east Asia. It's not a small new company hyping and then collapse and leave a financial gap. I've seen countless of those also. And a big part of the variation of their catalogue is that they did already sell speakers as part of their acoustics package, and now commercialise those designs on larger scale as far as i understood.

 

[Lars Risbo]

It's pretty shocking to me that this is expressed in such ambiguous terms in the CTA spec of all places. Standards people ought to know better for metrology sake

there are several other issues with the spec. the term frequency resolution is ill defined and the coefficients in a table for the DI for 5 deg and 10 deg are highly inconsistent and most likely both wrong.

 

[Soniclife]

yes of course but I have to wait some weeks until our clients project is released.

Kuoro AWG Floor Standing Speaker (PAIR) – March Audio

The Kuoro AWG is a floor standing speaker featuring state of the art drivers from Purifi with beautiful solid wood or painted cabinets. Class leading technical and subjective audio performance.

marchaudio.com

Is it this? Seems to match on specs, looks very impressive.

 

[kharan]

Kuoro AWG Floor Standing Speaker (PAIR) – March Audio

The Kuoro AWG is a floor standing speaker featuring state of the art drivers from Purifi with beautiful solid wood or painted cabinets. Class leading technical and subjective audio performance.

marchaudio.com

Is it this? Seems to match on specs, looks very impressive.

I bet it's Radiant's Tower, their 6.2 was also a design collab.

 

[Paul7777x]

I bet it's Radiant's Tower, their 6.2 was also a design collab.

Is that certain? I’d like to hear about more if you know anything please?

Quite intriguing.

 

[kharan]

Is that certain? I’d like to hear about more if you know anything please?

Quite intriguing.

I only know public information, Radiant Acoustics has shown a tower with two Purifi woofers. And their previous Radiant 6.2 advertised that the waveguide on their tweeter was designed with Purifi's contribution, by Lars himself iirc. Anything beyond that is personal speculation.

 

[amirm]

Is no one else concerned that Ascilab have bitten off far to big a bite with so many models and variations, far too soon and with no firm delivery dates? And possibly the same for spare parts?

We haven't had much need for spare parts but in the couple of cases we did have, factory quickly air shipped them to the customer directly.

As far as your larger question, significant changes have been made to get back on track for production. For our part, we have committed to a very larger order and they have stepped up with volume part purchases to get us those. We have another 3 months or so of pain to get through with sporadic shipments. My hope is that by summer we will be in much better position than we have been.

As a way of update, we expect our shipment of C6Bs to arrive today or Monday (it is snowing here today!). It is not a ton but should satisfy some immediate need.

After that, we are looking at getting restock of F6B/F6Bs. And then the large C6B order above.

 

[AsciLab]

Sound on Sound just published a review of the AsciLab A6B.

"The A6B sounds extraordinary, and in monitoring terms can play the role of an incredibly effective mix tool like very few alternatives."

Check out the full review here:
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/ascilab-a6b

 

[four_strings_good]

Sound on Sound just published a review of the AsciLab A6B.


Check out the full review here:
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/ascilab-a6b

You beat me to it. I came here to post a link to this glowing review. This will do a lot to raise awareness in the pro audio community. Congratulations!