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Since are you not willing to ship...where are you located?

That's a fair question. The speakers are built in China. We receive them in big loads and have to move them into the warehouse. To unbox, inspect, test, and re-box is not a trivial process. We can't check them fast enough at that time or else they just sit in the receiving area. So we check...

Barry...you asked for an explanation, I don't think you need to apologize. We can't do anything about UPS's shipping time, but we can make sure our processes are good, that we get product out in a timely manner and expectations are set correctly. Thanks for you input on what info you think...

I'm guessing she didn't get the message across to you? To me...it means there are many different ways to "listen".

The presentation is right in line with what an audiologist friend of mine told me, "we perceive sounds in many different ways, in ways that we don't fully understand, and we all do it differently." By the way...Evelyn Glennie has her own YouTube channel and website...I did a google yesterday...

Hilarious!!

I don't recall this ever being posted here before... I assume the biggest reason, or at least one of the biggest reasons we are all in this hobby, is because we love music. A friend of mine shared this with me today, I thought it was excellent. Keep in mind, this lady, is almost completely...

I believe RAAL is working on set of headphones. Not exactly ribbon, but Oppo has a planar/magnetic headphone: https://www.oppodigital.com/headphones-pm-1/ I am sure there are others as well.

That's what I thought....and was hoping for. But you previously stated that you correlate the sound you like to measurements, so I am confused as to what you mean. Which is why I asked the question of what measurements correlation is/was....and then all you posted were FR measurements.

Sorry for the late reply... So for you....FR, on and and off axis, are the only measurements needed to tell you how a speaker will sound?

What specific measurements? What is your preference? Have you been able to correlate your preference to a certain set of measurements?

Not sure why you think I am getting defensive. "Even if"? Why deal with "ifs"? Again, the fact is that there was nothing in the price range that had the same or similar performance. The baffle opening can handle the NrT or the 70-20XR...like it does in the Tower. Ascend as even made custom...

You are proving my point of off the shelf vs custom. The tweeter, the faceplate, all designed because that is what Ascend needed. Ascend got what they wanted and at the proper price point ("pricing and value")...because they went custom. Nothing else was available to do the job at the needed...

I'm sorry, I thought in your previous post you said the tweeter was an issue in regards to the cabinet. The 70-20XR was not needed in this application, especially at its cost. You are missing one of the points of custom vs off the shelf. If you could get exactly what you wanted in a driver's...

Sure, the opening is different, but not a major change in tooling. The transformer is smaller in the less expensive RAAL, so not a big deal.

5 Wave Crest Audio HVL-1's would cost $517.50 right now, that includes shipping right now (plus tax in CA). :)

That would only be true for the woofer for the cabinet volume. For the tweeter, all you are really dealing with is the faceplate/mount. Since a custom faceplate/mount had already been made for the 70-20XR to be used in the Sierra Tower, that was pretty much a non-issue for the Sierra-2 since...

Like Dennis said, it may not be exactly the same though. Dave/Ascend had a need. He made a commitment to RAAL (ie. purchase a certain number of units or something like that), and in turn, RAAL made a commitment to him. It didn't hurt that Ascend was/is RAAL's #1 customer. R&D costs a lot of...

The 201/2...I don't own them, but had them in my home for a while. Excellent!

That was from only one person's impressions. And at the talent and resource level of Dave and Dennis, double the price will never get you double the performance, even within their own product lines. ...and a custom SEAS mid-woofer.