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New Collaboration with Ascilab!

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Hello everyone,

I’m excited to announce an important collaboration with Ascilab. As many of you know, Ascilab has delivered an incredible range of speakers that embody the best in engineering and science — all at amazingly affordable prices. Even better, the company actively listens to ASR member input and feedback.
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One challenge remains: Ascilab is based in South Korea, which makes shipping to other countries expensive and logistically complicated. To address this, Ascilab recently partnered with Audiophonics in the EU — an excellent choice — and continues to work with Purité Audio in the UK, another great partner.

Today, I’m announcing that we will be taking on exclusive distribution and marketing of Ascilab products in North America!

We will be setting up a new company to handle this, which my brother will run. He brings over 40 years of experience in audio retail and service/repair. I will support the venture through funding and marketing, while he will manage day-to-day operations.

Due to long lead time and shipping, it will be a couple of months before we are up and running.

Please note: the ASR mission remains unchanged. I will continue to judge every product impartially, regardless of whether it’s sold by our new company.

This was not an easy decision, as audio distribution comes with many risks. However, I believe this is a unique opportunity to increase the availability of well-engineered products and make it easier for people in North America to purchase them.

I hope I can count on your support to make this new venture successful — it’s a positive outcome for all of us.

Thank you!

P.S. Here are my reviews of two of their models if you have not seen them yet:

F6Bs sealed bookshelf: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/ascilab-f6bs-speaker-review.63324/
F6B passive radiator bookshelf: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...s/ascilab-f6b-bookshelf-speaker-review.63387/
 
This was not an easy decision, as audio distribution comes with many risks.
The good news is the performance of their products cut mustard.

At one point in time, when I read that they don't have a distributor in the US. For a very very brief moment, the idea of getting a group of people to start a consortium to hit Ascilab up. But then reality set in that I don't have deep pockets and I unlikely can get people to join a passion business.

Best of luck, Amir. I only wish I was as uniquely position as you are to take the risk on investing in this passion business.
 
And I hope this doesn't mean Erin is shut off from reviewing the products.
What? Of course not. I will be making sure he gets products to test if he is interested.
 
Any news on pricing compared to the manufacturer’s website?
It is a bit early to say for sure. But goal is to stay as close as possible to their pricing. This is our biggest challenge as their current pricing is based on direct sales to customers.
 
Hello everyone,

I’m excited to announce an important collaboration with Ascilab. As many of you know, Ascilab has delivered an incredible range of speakers that embody the best in engineering and science — all at amazingly affordable prices. Even better, the company actively listens to ASR member input and feedback.
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One challenge remains: Ascilab is based in South Korea, which makes shipping to other countries expensive and logistically complicated. To address this, Ascilab recently partnered with Audiophonics in the EU — an excellent choice — and continues to work with Purité Audio in the UK, another great partner.

Today, I’m announcing that we will be taking on exclusive distribution and marketing of Ascilab products in North America!

We will be setting up a new company to handle this, which my brother will run. He brings over 40 years of experience in audio retail and service/repair. I will support the venture through funding and marketing, while he will manage day-to-day operations.

Due to long lead time and shipping, it will be a couple of months before we are up and running.

Please note: the ASR mission remains unchanged. I will continue to judge every product impartially, regardless of whether it’s sold by our new company.

This was not an easy decision, as audio distribution comes with many risks. However, I believe this is a unique opportunity to increase the availability of well-engineered products and make it easier for people in North America to purchase them.

I hope I can count on your support to make this new venture successful — it’s a positive outcome for all of us.

Thank you!

P.S. Here are my reviews of two of their models if you have not seen them yet:

F6Bs sealed bookshelf: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/ascilab-f6bs-speaker-review.63324/
F6B passive radiator bookshelf: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...s/ascilab-f6b-bookshelf-speaker-review.63387/
Congratulations. I hope they are developing speakers for larger rooms than 200 Sqft.
 
Congratulations. I hope they are developing speakers for larger rooms than 200 Sqft.
Thanks. Their roadmap is quite rich when it comes to larger speakers of all forms.
 
What’s the microphone used on their Klippel NFS? Looks like Earthworks to me. Didn’t know it supported anything other than Gefell MK 255
 
What’s the microphone used on their Klippel NFS? Looks like Earthworks to me. Didn’t know it supported anything other than Gefell MK 255
You are free to use any microphone you like. It accepts a calibration file for it. I did buy the Gefell but you don't have to.
 
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