Ascilab C8C Active Speaker Review

[Dialectic]

REW integration was, for me at least always on the flaky side, but saved a few minutes when it worked.
Roon ‘ready’ is useful but add a streamer to a pair of C8Cs and you have the same functionality and saved thousands of ( the currency of your choice) pounds.
Keith

The REW integration has worked perfectly for me for the past 3-4 years.

The D&D phone app seems a little "slick" for my taste, but the functionality has been fine.

Roon could not usefully sort my library of ~20,000 classical discs, so I dumped it and went back to Foobar/JRiver.

 

[goat76]

REW integration was, for me at least always on the flaky side, but saved a few minutes when it worked.
Roon ‘ready’ is useful but add a streamer to a pair of C8Cs and you have the same functionality and saved thousands of ( the currency of your choice) pounds.
Keith

I have noticed a slight change in attitude from your side here on the forum towards Dutch & Dutch, and I can no longer find you listed on their website as an official dealer. Have you stopped promoting D&D speakers in favor of AsciLab speakers now?

 

[dfuller]

I have noticed a slight change in attitude from your side here on the forum towards Dutch & Dutch, and I can no longer find you listed on their website as an official dealer. Have you stopped promoting D&D speakers in favor of AsciLab speakers now?

You mean to tell me a former dealer is talking badly about brands that no longer are represented by him? Hm. Funny.

 

[Purité Audio]

I have noticed a slight change in attitude from your side here on the forum towards Dutch & Dutch, and I can no longer find you listed on their website as an official dealer. Have you stopped promoting D&D speakers in favor of AsciLab speakers now?

Yes last evening I checked the D&D site and discovered that ‘Purité Audio’ had been removed, it would be slightly disappointing to be removed without receiving any notification whatsoever.
I immediately wrote to both Jannis and Martijn seeking clarification, hopefully just an error or perhaps they have removed me because of my enthusiasm for AsciLab.
Kii removed me as a retailer when I first took on Dutch&Dutch so there is a precedent!
Keith

 

[Pearljam5000]

Yes last evening I checked the D&D site and discovered that ‘Purité Audio’ had been removed, it would be slightly disappointing to be removed without receiving any notification whatsoever.
I immediately wrote to both Jannis and Martijn seeking clarification, hopefully just an error or perhaps they have removed me because of my enthusiasm for AsciLab.
Kii removed me as a retailer when I first took on Dutch&Dutch so there is a precedent!
Keith

That's too bad I wanted to hear your impressions on the 15C

 

[Purité Audio]

Me too, but even if I am still their retailer (which appears doubtful ) at $130k that is rather unlikely!
Keith

 

[markstein]

Yes last evening I checked the D&D site and discovered that ‘Purité Audio’ had been removed, it would be slightly disappointing to be removed without receiving any notification whatsoever.
I immediately wrote to both Jannis and Martijn seeking clarification, hopefully just an error or perhaps they have removed me because of my enthusiasm for AsciLab.
Kii removed me as a retailer when I first took on Dutch&Dutch so there is a precedent!
Keith

Please let us know what is the outcome. I am really interested and would like to know.

 

[pat355]

Removing you without prior notice would be extremely bad form.

 

[tifune]

Vertically the dual woofers bring cancellations causing a very narrow directivity. So stay at tweeter axis:
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would we call this +/- 15 degree listening window?

 

[Paul7777x]

Removing you without prior notice would be extremely bad form.

Yes. And without a stated reason too.

Naturally any company is free to do business with any one they choose.

And not too as well.

But without a reason it is going to seem like sour grapes as it were.

 

[AudioJester]

You mean to tell me a former dealer is talking badly about brands that no longer are represented by him? Hm. Funny.

Maybe - can you provide examples of Keith talking badly about D&D? He has sold > 60 pairs if I remember correctly?

Also looks like some brands dont like their dealers saying positive things about competitors.

In any case its between Purite and D&D to look into and resolve.

 

[Grimoire]

Removing you without prior notice would be extremely bad form.

Terrible, just as bad as not honouring agreements and cancelling orders.

 

[danielst2711]

Hello together, why can I not select the soft clip on the right speaker? On the left speaker I can modify the soft clip limiter and can select it. Thanks in advance

 

[kharan]

Hello together, why can I not select the soft clip on the right speaker? On the left speaker I can modify the soft clip limiter and can select it. Thanks in advance
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I don't think you should be able to deactivate or modify the limiter in either speaker, it's the one where you can that is badly configured.

 

[danielst2711]

its strange the settings on the left are the same and I can deactivate/modify it

 

[829]

Hello together, why can I not select the soft clip on the right speaker? On the left speaker I can modify the soft clip limiter and can select it. Thanks in advance
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its strange the settings on the left are the same and I can deactivate/modify it

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Maybe some inconsistency with the firmware flashing process at the factory, @AsciLab?

To my understanding, Soft-clip should be enabled by default. Maybe this is a (password) protected preset? Anyways, would be a chance to fix that with firmware V1.1 - it's done when it's done.

 

[traind]

What is the recommendation for how often to turn off the power to active speakers in general and the C8Cs in specific? Nightly? When going away for a few days? Never?

 

[AsciLab]

its strange the settings on the left are the same and I can deactivate/modify it

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Hello. It looks the setting is wrong.
Can you DM me? I’ll fix it by remote connection. Sorry for the inconvenient experience.

 

[RexrothPigeon]

What is the recommendation for how often to turn off the power to active speakers in general and the C8Cs in specific? Nightly? When going away for a few days? Never?

i only turn mine off when traveling for a week or longer, but I'm also curious if my practice is at odds with D&D recommendations

 

[amirm]

What is the recommendation for how often to turn off the power to active speakers in general and the C8Cs in specific? Nightly? When going away for a few days? Never?

I would turn them off when you are not listening to them. This is my generic advice for all audio electronics.