Sierra-1 NrT in home demo

[edmondwolfman]

Hello all. I received an email from Dave today stating that the Spring Cleaning sale would end within the next 24 hours.

You've seen me post here off and on about not being happy with what I perceive as brightness/harshness from my Axiom M60s on some music and definately on female voices.

I sent a response to Dave and was hoping for a reply so I could possibly order the NrTs before the sale ends later today or tomorrow but I know he's busy and he may not see it until too late so I thought I would post here as some of you may be able to answer.

My listening position is small, about 7 feet from speaker to my ears so I was thinking of going to bookshelf style speakers and getting rid of my Axiom towers and that may work better.

If I do order the Sierra-1 NrTs they would need to sound quite a bit better than my Axioms or I wouldn't be able to justify the purchase with my wife

If you order the speakers for an in home demo and end up having to send them back would I just be out the shipping from and to?

I'm a serious buyer and wouldn't order if I didn't have good intentions but part of me would feel bad if I had to send them back.

Also if I ordered today with the NrT upgrade what would eta be?

I know some of these things no one can answer but Dave but maybe he will see this post before he sees these questions in email.

[Mag_Neato]

Have you tried calling Ascend? They usually answer, and if Dave is there he will usually talk to you.

[edmondwolfman]

You know, I tried to call earlier and got no answer but looking just now at the telephone number again I notice they don't open until 10:30 PDT and I called around 11:30 CDT so they weren't open yet. I'll call again if I don't get an email shortly.

[billy p]

Hello all. I received an email from Dave today stating that the Spring Cleaning sale would end within the next 24 hours.

You've seen me post here off and on about not being happy with what I perceive as brightness/harshness from my Axiom M60s on some music and definately on female voices.

I sent a response to Dave and was hoping for a reply so I could possibly order the NrTs before the sale ends later today or tomorrow but I know he's busy and he may not see it until too late so I thought I would post here as some of you may be able to answer.

My listening position is small, about 7 feet from speaker to my ears so I was thinking of going to bookshelf style speakers and getting rid of my Axiom towers and that may work better.

If I do order the Sierra-1 NrTs they would need to sound quite a bit better than my Axioms or I wouldn't be able to justify the purchase with my wife

If you order the speakers for an in home demo and end up having to send them back would I just be out the shipping from and to?

I'm a serious buyer and wouldn't order if I didn't have good intentions but part of me would feel bad if I had to send them back.

Also if I ordered today with the NrT upgrade what would eta be?

I know some of these things no one can answer but Dave but maybe he will see this post before he sees these questions in email.

Trust me you won't be sorry..... I recently sold my Energy RC and decided to go with an inwall solution for H/T so I purchased some Axiom speakers. I'm currently using w22's up front and I have A/B them against my Sierra's using the exact same source material...let just say it wasn't difficult telling them apart....the Axioms sounded as if they had a cold...lol. Don't get me wrong I enjoy my Axiom HT setup, but when I swiched from my RC's to the Axiom's it wasn't night and day there were sultle differences ...with the Sierra's it was instantly WOW.

Just my 2 cents...

[davef]

Hi Guys,

Sorry -- we had a complete power outage this side of town and our phone lines and computers were down for many hours. I am not sure what caused this, it is a beautiful day today--- but as of now, (12:20pm PST), everything is restored

[edmondwolfman]

Ok, I ordered the Sierra-1 NrTs today and may have by the end of next week.

I'm going to compare them to my current speakers, Axiom M60v2s and another as yet mentioned stand mount.

I plan an listening to them as full size just to hear what they sound like without a sub but the bottom line is that I run my HSU ULS-15 with the Axioms always, crossed over around 70Hz, so I will eventually setup the NrTs to run the same way so I can get an apples to apples comparison.

The comparison will not involve the bottom range as I use a sub for that but instead will concentrate on everything from 60 or 70Hz up. The Axioms seem to be harsh in the upper registers and female voices, I guess because of the metal dome tweeter and that is what I'm looking to replace.

With that said, the Sierra-1 NrTs need to be substantially better sounding so I can justify spending money on another pair of speakers (wife involved here )

Does that crossover point sound fair or should it be tweaked up or down? Placement is pretty much set in stone as far as left and right and only have a little leeway from front to back so they will have to sit in exactly the same place as the Axioms and hopefully that will be good placement.

Maybe a little help here. I use an Emotiva RPA-2 amp and a USP-1 preamp with bass management. The pre has low pass and high pass pots so I can tell the pre to send up to (for example) 70Hz to the sub and down to 60 or 65 to the main speakers. Is that too much of an overlap? Should the numbers be the same as in...60 and below to sub and 60 and above to mains?

Any thoughts appreciated.

[curtis]

I think the crossover is fair....should be a very interesting listen.

[edmondwolfman]

I'm looking forward to it. I know the room and placement has a lot to do with how speakers sound and I hope the space I have puts the NrTs in their sweet spot because I can't move them around. They either sound good there or they don't.

I'm hoping that since my listening area is so small (around 7' from speaker to ear) that a 2 way design will integrate there better than the 3 way towers do.