Farewell to 340SE's!

[curtis]

Please let me know what your impressions are. I too am contemplating if I should upgrade my 340se's to the Sierra's. I mostly use my speakers for HT and listen to music through my IPOD dock. Are the Sierra's that much better for HT use with the sub ON. I run dual ULS-15's so I'm not worried about the bass. For me, the upgrade would be more cosmetic. Piano gloss would look sweet.

Is there a returning customer discount?

You can just come to my place for a listen if you'd like.

[azanon]

You can just come to my place for a listen if you'd like.

Does he live near you?

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Sure guys, I'll come back and give my impression. It might be a couple of weeks though just to give me time to compare, and to allocate listening time. I'm hoping I love the way they sound and I will admit, for $900 my expectations are quite high.

The wife called and said they came in today while she was at the house. In other words, no stranger stole them off my front porch. (In theory, always a risk)

There are several (glowing) professional reviews already though. I'll be more in the common man category.

[curtis]

Does he live near you?

I believe he is only 15 minutes or so away from previous posts.

[lokimydog]

Hi Curtis,

Thanks for the offer. From what I have read and heard, I know the Sierra's will sound great. I just want to know if they are that much better if most of my listening is HT? Are they worth the loss I'm going to take when I sell my 340's and spend another 600-700 hundred for a Sierra LCR setup. Maybe Azanon can chime in once he's demoed the Sierra's and properly broke them in.

[curtis]

Hi Curtis,

Thanks for the offer. From what I have read and heard, I know the Sierra's will sound great. I just want to know if they are that much better if most of my listening is HT? Are they worth the loss I'm going to take when I sell my 340's and spend another 600-700 hundred for a Sierra LCR setup. Maybe Azanon can chime in once he's demoed the Sierra's and properly broke them in.

Value judgments are subjective and different for everyone. Always better to judge for yourself.

[azanon]

Hi Curtis,

Thanks for the offer. From what I have read and heard, I know the Sierra's will sound great. I just want to know if they are that much better if most of my listening is HT? Are they worth the loss I'm going to take when I sell my 340's and spend another 600-700 hundred for a Sierra LCR setup. Maybe Azanon can chime in once he's demoed the Sierra's and properly broke them in.

My ability to comment on HT applications will be very limited. The reason I say that is because I didn't get a Sierra-1 Center. Believe me I would have had my current HT setup had space for it.

Only have time for one quick comment so far:

Where's the Michael Jackson Thriller CD to go with the white gloves? Just kidding - those gloves were a nice touch, at least in theory. In practice, I preferred the more sturdy palm on speaker to ensure they weren't dropped. I"ll buff them later

A question; could someone explain why my graphs take a nosedive at 200hz, and the ones Dave have posted don't (meaning his hover at 85db+ until 100hz). I'm showing about 81db at 100hz, 79db at 80hz, and 77db at 50hz.

[GirgleMirt]

Sure, it's from the way they're measured, if something is wrong with the speakers, it'll show up >200hz, so the <200hz is useless, so taking port measurements would be a waste of time and resources...

[azanon]

Sure, it's from the way they're measured, if something is wrong with the speakers, it'll show up >200hz, so the <200hz is useless, so taking port measurements would be a waste of time and resources...

I assumed there's an explanation ...... so below 200hz is garbage then. Is there any short explanation why the test cant just be full range anyway?

It says at the bottom "on-axis freq response accurate to 250hz" on both.

[davef]

Hi Az,

See here:

http://forum.ascendacoustics.com/sho...82&postcount=4

[azanon]

Hi Az,

See here:

http://forum.ascendacoustics.com/sho...82&postcount=4

Ahh.

You said, "If you notice on the frequency response graphs included with your speakers, it states directly on the graphs that the measurements are only accurate down to approximately 250Hz." On my graph, it doesn't say it like you just did, meaning the word measurements doesn't appear anywhere.

I wonder if he interpreted that the way I did, meaning the speaker you just paid $900 for has an "on-axis freq response accurate to 250hz". In other words, I couldn't tell it was actually a disclaimer and not a summary of the graph I was reading. Looking at the graph, that statement would fit both explanations!

Thanks for clearing that up.