Greetings from "Amish Country", Lancaster, PA!

I have decided to start saving for a full set of Ascend speakers, for three reasons:

(1 Ascend has an active and enthusiastic community (you guys! ), and that without a manipulative marketing team driving it behind the scenes! To me there is no better evidence of a quality product.

(2 I have enjoyed reading Dave Fabrikant's posts on this forum. In this cynical age it is a rare pleasure to find a company where the owner genuinely cares and engages with customers. Dave strikes me as one who is able to pull off that rare feat of being both artist and businessman. Too often the vision is compromised in pursuit of the practical, but that does not seem to be the case with Ascend.

(3 As an amateur speaker builder, the Sierra Horizons are the speakers that I wish I could have conceived and built. Proper horizontal speakers are wonderful, but alas they are rare! I much prefer horizontal speakers because they are cat safe. Tall speakers suffer from the danger of tipping if they are not heavy enough, but if they are made heavy enough then they risk becoming a climbing tree!


That said, I look forward to becoming an "official" member of the community once I have some speakers later this year! Now to decide whether to wait and buy all five or seven at once, or to buy them in pairs gradually, and which ones...