Originally Posted by
sludgeogre
Indeed, that is why I ended up going with Ascend. You don't see anyone else using cabinets that are engineered to that degree, and you very rarely see such high quality components. So many other companies spend their budget in all the wrong places, like marketing, advertising, distrbutors and sales people, fancy finishes, big ol' bi-wire speaker terminals with cheap plated jumpers, and embossed panels with their dumb model names for their same-ol' tweeter with a new, buzzword optimized waveguide.
I think the thing that really sealed it for me were the measurements and honest engineering work. Once I read the RAAL tweeter comparison to the NrT, with all of those pages of comparisons and real, actual engineering published for consumers, I couldn't justify spending my money anywhere else. I showed that work to a friend of mine and it convinced him to buy a pair of CMB 170 SE's. You just can't argue with sensible engineering.