phoenixdogfan
Major Contributor
Most people here understand what you are maintaining. There are always a few who do things like look at a "waveguide", decide it's a $2 piece of plastic and think with a few woodworking tools, some particleboard and some drivers ordered from Madisound, they can do the same. And of course they can not. There's a reason why speakers like this come around so seldom: It's because they're extremely hard to develop, and just as hard to bring to market at prices people can afford to pay. So far, everything I've seen from Asci seems like a bargain to me, and I don't think I'm going to find their recipe in some loudspeaker cookbook, even with the help of the latest speaker building software. And most everyone here knows that as well.For hifi gear heads and so called experienced speaker builders and long time audiophile or fools, it amazes me the lack of knowledge /respect of the extensive R&D and know how that goes into well performing /measuring speakers like Ascilab. I'm fortunate I have visited them and spent multiple hours listening to the speakers. It's impressive. It's obvious the amount of work, technology and know how that went into these speakers. I'm guessing the same naysayers work for free in their real life because they fail to account for the thousands of man hours that have gone into this with little to no revenue, a.k.a. R&D.
Multiple ASR long time members and contributors scoff at it and imagine they can do the same. If it was that easy, don't you think SMSL, Topping, Douk or Fosi would have come out with speakers like this just like they introduce DACS, preamps and now amps that measure and perform well and do so 2 to 4 times per year?
Just take a moment and think about that.
Are you guys really that smart that you can equally engineer and build products like SMSL or Topping? If you could, which I guarantee you cannot, then what makes you think you can design and build speakers like this? There are talented speaker designers with talented engineering teams that could do this and have done this. The end result is a speaker that is 3 to 5x or more in price.
The only comprehensible reason for such naysayers is total subjectivism. You think you can build a good sounding speaker. But get it to measure like this even with the same drivers? At this price? And make a profit? Best of luck and hope you have a fat bank account.