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You'd wonder what it does to sound quality
We'll have to wait until Amir can measure models shipped by sea and air.
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I doubt he’s in it for the money though (he has another business for that), and I’d bet his margins will be minimal.
I don't disagree.
Sorry for the diversion from the question about shipping, but especially given the name "Tested Audio" I'm curious what your plans are for routine QC testing?
Sometimes when you purchase scientific equipment each item is shipped with its own test sheet. (Eg a printout of the spectral response measured for that individual unit). This would be the gold standard and perhaps overkill especially on the lower cost speaker lines.
Sometimes, if a test sheet is not routinely provided, the retailer gives the option of paying extra for a calibration/test report.
Perhaps ASCILAB already does some QC testing at their end? If so it would be good to know what is done and if it applies to every item or just a few per batch and so on.
I'm not suggesting that ASCILAB would ever be dishonest. Even so, I think it could be in your interest as an importer to do at least a few random samples per batch shipped.
This could protect against reputational damage from a situation like that caused by the AKM factory fire. Where there were AVRs being sold on the basis of great test results achieved by early devices (fitted with AKM DACs). But then customers who ordered later were shipped devices with lower performing DACs.
Sometimes when you purchase scientific equipment each item is shipped with its own test sheet. (Eg a printout of the spectral response measured for that individual unit). This would be the gold standard and perhaps overkill especially on the lower cost speaker lines.
Sometimes, if a test sheet is not routinely provided, the retailer gives the option of paying extra for a calibration/test report.
Perhaps ASCILAB already does some QC testing at their end? If so it would be good to know what is done and if it applies to every item or just a few per batch and so on.
I'm not suggesting that ASCILAB would ever be dishonest. Even so, I think it could be in your interest as an importer to do at least a few random samples per batch shipped.
This could protect against reputational damage from a situation like that caused by the AKM factory fire. Where there were AVRs being sold on the basis of great test results achieved by early devices (fitted with AKM DACs). But then customers who ordered later were shipped devices with lower performing DACs.
Funny stuff.
$70? Sure, no problem.Hey you all...
As some of you know, a few months ago I decided to open an online store to distribution Ascilab speakers in US. This is a thread to keep everyone up to date on where we are and answer questions you have.
As the title says, the name of the new store is "TestedAudio.com." Yes, boringbut descriptive in that nothing will be sold without my personal testing and scrutiny. The site has been registered for a while now and I am working on building the storefront (using shopify.com).
Based on voting from membership (thank you!), we placed a rather large, preliminary order a few months ago. As of this writing, fair number of the speakers are built, and others are being finished.
We have a choice in shipping from Korea to us. Standard shipping will cost half as much as air freight but will take a month or more to get here (and then we have to ship it to you). Air freight on the other hand gets here in a week! Further, for ocean shipping, we have to wait until all the speakers are ready whereas with Air, they can be shipped immediately, letting us fulfill orders almost immediately.
Another aspect is that if everyone come through with their pre-order commitment, we have already pre-sold our first order! Staying with ocean shipping means waiting a month or more for production of the next batch, then another month for shipping. So follow on orders will likely take us to end of the year if not beginning of next year.
If you are interested in these speakers, especially if you have already contacted me, please post whether you would pay a premium of say, $70 to have your order shipped by air. Nothing is a commitment. I just need to know which route we need to take as far as our first order.
If it were up to me, we would go all Air and eat the cost but we just don't have that kind of margin. Hence the quest to find out how much you value the faster and more flexible delivery.
Thanks,
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Individual unit testing will be done by manufacturer. We will be done some testing at our end to make sure products are performant but that would be just one sample.
We will of course jump on any issues that are found to verify and help company resolve.
I would assume, though, that since you're the importer/distributor/retailer that your company would be responsible to consumers for warranty service? Maybe you'd choose to ship them back to Ascilab, but that's between you and them, not you and the consumer. Is that correct? Or is my relationship (as a consumer) directly with Ascilab?
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Your relationship will indeed be with us. I don't expect any speaker needing to be sent back to Ascilab.
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This is valuable assurance.
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What if someone punctures a driver/radiator membrane or rips off the wire terminals?
Will you offer replacement parts? Or out of warranty repair services?
Does Ascilab offer those for speakers not sold by them?
Or can a small damage potentially mean the entire speaker is totalled and needs to be replaced because no spare parts are available?
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Yes to all.
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You mean contacting them directly instead of going through us? What would be the benefit to that?
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No, we won't be replacing entire speakers if a part is bad. Per above, if a customer has the knowledge, we can send them the part to replace or they can send the speaker to us in US for repair.
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As a backup in case Tested Audio would function as retailer only, and not as service point as well.
Since you've confirmed that it will, please disregard that question.
Great news!
Dear Amir, since now you have voice on Ascilab business, my question is why don't they have a normal floorstander in their pipeline. I can only see base extenders that can be purchased separately, but the cost of having two objects is more than a proper floorstander. Also i wonder what happens to the passive radiator once that the base extender is connected, it becomes a usless waste of money in the best scenario. Why not add a couple of woofers to the C6B and sell it for 2k?
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There will be a tower speaker:
Post in thread 'AsciLab speakers are about to launch' https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...eakers-are-about-to-launch.54794/post-2377959
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