The low crossover is friggin UNREAL! This allows my bigger Ascilab C6B to sound NICER than my older Adam T5V at a similar distance. With my T5V I always felt like I heard lower frequencies lower and the higher frequencies higher, like if i closed my eyes it felt like 500-1500hz or something felt like it was at like, let's use a building's example, level 1 and upper frequencies were at level 2. But with my Ascilab C6B I didn't feel that issue much at 0.7m and it was actually GOOD at 0.8m!
If I were to use Neumann's ratings, the minimum distance would be 0.8m and the recommended distance should be 1m and beyond. Absurd piece of kit.
And the soundstage depth due to the constant radiation? My God. Everything is so consistently placed. I think I understand why people call Genelec and KEF "boring" or "clinical". It is SO perfect that it's boring.... Anyways back to the soundstage, it's kind of narrow on-axis but the good thing is you can just toe it out and get a WIDER soundstage with the same depth! Best of both worlds!?!?! Oh and despite not being a coaxial I can move my head back and forth, up and down and still get a nice sound.
Although I'd say I should give people a warning that the highs of this speaker are quite weird and disperse quite widely compared to others, as a result you might find that the sound is bright or something, i had to put in a little high shelf and everything is stupendously good now.
I first thought these speakers were slightly overpriced as they were priced the same as the KEF Q Concerto Meta where I live but face to face these look beautiful and they're built quite well imo. A decent chunk of your money goes to the design part. Although I must say that the ring around my left woofer came off when I was taking the stickers off, i just plopped it back and it's been perfect ever since, concerned me a lot initially but it's all good now.
Maybe I'm biased due to measurements which i had seen prior but they help me understand the differences I'm feeling between this, my T5V and my D3V.
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If the C6B is this good at these close distances, i can't imagine how nice the F6Bs must be! Especially at 0.6-0.7m distances or something, i think that might be possible with the smaller speaker but it might be asking too much from it. I think Ascilab could take a dip into the desktop speaker space with a C5D, F5D or something like that, competing with the Adam D3V and Kanto Ora/Ora4 with 1 advantage that no one has, the constant directivity. Bigger speakers have it till 10k but that's it. Ascilab could dominate the market in different price points and managing costs and the small form factor could prove to be a fun challenge for them I think.
Whatever the case, bravo Ascilab, I'm someone who loves and respects KEF and was feeling like I might be making a mistake going for the C6B, but it was anything but. Still a bit pricey for me as I don't mind flimsier build and worse design for a lower price but I can totally understand the decision to not have something like that.
In short, these sound good, VERY good. So good that you'll find it boring as you won't have much to complain about or to "fix".
