Hi Bri - just read your review and it brought a lot of memories and a big smile to my face. I did 'almost' the same thing as you with my Polk RT800i floorstanders, except I did A/B them. That lasted all of 5 minutes - the 340's were far far superior in everything except bass extension - the 800's do go lower, but that's not necessarily a good thing when (compared to the Ascend) it was all muddy.Originally Posted by curtis
Among the many factors that steered me towards Ascend, Curtis's quote above was one of the main factors. You won't read a of stuff about Ascend at other forums other than "why don't you try Ascend". I'm doing my best on other forums to follow this rather unwritten law, as I don't want to be seen as a 'shill' for Ascend. This is what you see with some other on-line companies - when their speaker gets run down, a bunch of them 'freak out', when (I can't really remember a real 'negative' review on the Ascends though to be hones) Ascend is brought up in a negative light, 95% of the time the owners of the product just kinda shrug, we know what we have and we don't have to justify the product or our purchasing decision to anyone.
The worst part is - it only gets better. If you don't have one - get a universal player and play some DVD-A's or SACD's, it will blow you away!
Congrats Bri!!!!