Hi to all,

I've been lurking on here for some years now, and finally registered.

My system:

Adcom GTP-400 preamp
Adcom GFA-535 amp
Cambridge Audio Azur 740C CD player (and DAC)
Qobuz through an I-pad to an Audioengine B-Fi to the CA Azur DAC
Ascend Sierra Towers with NrT tweeters

My wife and I met in a Celtic band, and performed together for a while also as a duo. We listen to classical music, jazz, Celtic, some new age (Liz Story, for example), some world music, and some softer rock stuff (Eagles, etc.).

We got the Adcom and Cambridge Audio equipment and have had it for quite a while, then went through a number of speakers, including PSB, Monitor Audio and KLH, and we also experimented with some active speakers - Mackie and Samson.

The Ascend towers are the first tower speakers we've ever had, and they're very satisfying speakers. Better in pretty much all aspects than our previous speakers - overall neutrality, bass extension and articulation are particularly noticeable.

I could see them being our "forever speakers", but I'm also curious about others, like Vandersteen, and the newest LX speakers from Ascend.

I'll be posting in other threads now - see you there :-)