Ascend Acoustics Sierra 2

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ccmclaughlin

Audiophyte
Have these speakers been sold?


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AcuDefTechGuy

AcuDefTechGuy

Audioholic Jedi
WTF Man! I'm waiting for him to PM me a low ball, "I need them gone" deal :D.

Just kidding. If they were Gloss Cherry, this thread would have been over long ago, phew, thank God for small blessings.
Piano gloss cherry like my KEF 201/2? :D
 
agarwalro

agarwalro

Audioholic Ninja
Piano gloss cherry like my KEF 201/2? :D
My heart sank when I finally saw your listing, after commuting to buy the Sierra 2 and dual Rythmik E15. Had that not been the case, I would have seriously considered buying them.

Not complaining though, my 2.2 setup has set the bar very high, on all fronts.
 
AcuDefTechGuy

AcuDefTechGuy

Audioholic Jedi
My heart sank when I finally saw your listing, after commuting to buy the Sierra 2 and dual Rythmik E15. Had that not been the case, I would have seriously considered buying them.

Not complaining though, my 2.2 setup has set the bar very high, on all fronts.
No regrets. You have a nice system.

I can't believe that I only have 2 more items to sell - 1) KEF 201/2 & 2) Linkwitz Orion. Almost unreal. Almost sold the 201/2 last night too. The guy said he was going to buy the new boxy $7,500 KEF Reference bookshelf that looks like an R300 bookshelf, but wanted to see the last minute if I could sell the 201/2 for $2K. Good luck. :D
 
agarwalro

agarwalro

Audioholic Ninja
The guy said he was going to buy the new boxy $7,500 KEF Reference bookshelf that looks like an R300 bookshelf, but wanted to see the last minute if I could sell the 201/2 for $2K. Good luck. :D
HAHAHA! I can't fault him for trying, but, at least be reasonable right?
 
AcuDefTechGuy

AcuDefTechGuy

Audioholic Jedi
HAHAHA! I can't fault him for trying, but, at least be reasonable right?
Yeah, I hope he spends the whole $7,500 on the new monitors that probably measures worse and sounds worse. **** Evil Laugh***** :D :D
 
ematthews

ematthews

Audioholic General
Sierra's are back up. Buyer wrote back a little early and can not buy them right now.... Item is back up for sale.
 
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ccmclaughlin

Audiophyte
emathews, are you selling your speaker stands as well for the Sierra 2s?


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AcuDefTechGuy

AcuDefTechGuy

Audioholic Jedi
Good for you. I only have 1 pair of speakers left to sell (Orion), but I may never get them sold. :D

Now don't you spend that money just yet.

I think you are on spending probation for another 6 months or until we have you selling the Parasound preamp and accepting the idea of a Pre-pro or AVR. :D
 
ematthews

ematthews

Audioholic General
Ha.... I already have a few things in place that I am thinking of right now. Not sure which way I will go. I will tell you this, the Marantz PM8004 hooked up to the RBH sounds like crap. I can tell you if I didn't have the P5 with ATI running the RBH, I wouldn't be sure of keeping them. They sound muddy with the Marantz. The ATI and P5 make the RBH sing..
I remember first hearing the speakers and thinking the bass sounded loose but after a week or so that seemed to go away. Or I got acclimated to it.
I do still like the fact of having all the P5 adjustments with a sub and monitor's. I guess an AVR with all the features would do the same.
 
AcuDefTechGuy

AcuDefTechGuy

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Ha.... I already have a few things in place that I am thinking of right now. Not sure which way I will go. I will tell you this, the Marantz PM8004 hooked up to the RBH sounds like crap. I can tell you if I didn't have the P5 with ATI running the RBH, I wouldn't be sure of keeping them. They sound muddy with the Marantz. The ATI and P5 make the RBH sing..
I remember first hearing the speakers and thinking the bass sounded loose but after a week or so that seemed to go away. Or I got acclimated to it.
I do still like the fact of having all the P5 adjustments with a sub and monitor's. I guess an AVR with all the features would do the same.
I think your next EXPERIMENT is to borrow a Denon AVR from Best Buy and hook up to the ATI amp. :D

If the AVR experiment sounds like crap, then we know the Parasound/ATI is definitely for you. :D
 
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macddmac

macddmac

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Ha.... I already have a few things in place that I am thinking of right now. Not sure which way I will go. I will tell you this, the Marantz PM8004 hooked up to the RBH sounds like crap. I can tell you if I didn't have the P5 with ATI running the RBH, I wouldn't be sure of keeping them. They sound muddy with the Marantz. The ATI and P5 make the RBH sing..
I remember first hearing the speakers and thinking the bass sounded loose but after a week or so that seemed to go away. Or I got acclimated to it.
I do still like the fact of having all the P5 adjustments with a sub and monitor's. I guess an AVR with all the features would do the same.
Love my P5 / A-21 combo!
 
AcuDefTechGuy

AcuDefTechGuy

Audioholic Jedi
Keep dropping that price and I'll take them off your hands :D
You know every speaker I've listed has had at least one offer. Some of the offers were a few hundred dollars short, but at least people made the offer.

But not a single soul has even made an offer of any kind for the Orion.

I think my best bet is if someone locally finds interest.

3 bad things regarding the Orion.

1. It's an expensive speaker (new Orion now costs $15,000)
2. It's a delicate tower speaker. It comes with wood crates, which means freight shipping is substantial, like $600-$1,000 depending on destination.
3. It's a Direct Internet brand that doesn't have much following.

But I suppose if I dropped the price to the same price as a Phil3 ($3K), I would get quite a few offers. But I'm never going to do that. I would rather just keep them. And chances are, I probably will just keep the Orion along with the five RBH SX-T2P/R towers. :D
 
AcuDefTechGuy

AcuDefTechGuy

Audioholic Jedi
I came within a minute of buying the A21 amp too but somebody here made me buy the ATI-2000.:D
Not I. :D

I give an "edge" to ATI because it has more "features" I like. But I know in terms of SQ, they are neck-to-neck.
 
ematthews

ematthews

Audioholic General
Not I. :D

I give an "edge" to ATI because it has more "features" I like. But I know in terms of SQ, they are neck-to-neck.
I read somewhere that the ATI is a touch more quite as well. That might not be true. I know it's dead silent and very powerful to me.. It's a piece that I wouldn't sell. Any idea of what a channel cost in these if I went from two to three?
 
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