Ascend Acoustics Speaker Rankings and Reviews

Formaldehyde-free layered bamboo ply cabinet with a 1” dome tweeter over a 5.25” midwoofer, mated by a 4th-order acoustic crossover rather than a stock textbook design.

A compact bamboo-cabinet bookshelf speaker with a RAAL true ribbon tweeter, very even directivity and a 4.89 preference score (7.50 with a subwoofer).

High-quality manufacturer NFS data shows 0.385dB on-axis average absolute deviation, 0.428 listening-window smoothness, and unusually even 80-degree dispersion in both planes.

A Klippel NFS optimized crossover and proprietary 4.5 inch long throw glass fiber woofer give this compact mini-monitor a large soundstage for its size, at Ascend’s most accessible price point.

High-quality manufacturer Klippel NFS data shows 0.295dB on-axis average absolute deviation, 0.531 listening-window smoothness, and a strong 7.99 preference score with a subwoofer.

Very neutral, flat frequency response: within about plus or minus 1.5dB ignoring one narrow dip.

A RAAL true ribbon tweeter is paired with a custom SEAS Excel Curv woofer, with the crossover optimized against Klippel NFS measurement data.

High-quality manufacturer NFS data gives the Titan version a 0.585dB on-axis average absolute deviation and preference scores of 4.83 without a subwoofer and 7.45 with one, both better than the Ribbon version.

High-quality manufacturer NFS data gives the RAAL version a low 2.09 sound-power directivity-index standard deviation, the most consistent dispersion of the two Duo V2 variants.

On-axis response is impressively flat from about 100Hz to 2kHz, staying within roughly ±1dB, with a clean, gradual bass rolloff below that.

A 3-way bamboo tower with a RAAL ribbon tweeter that measures a 6.97 preference score, bass to 38.7Hz and a nearly flat on-axis response.

A SEAS Titan dome tweeter and dual 5.25 inch long throw woofers in a bamboo V-LAM tower reach a measured 58.6Hz extension point at a more accessible price than Ascend’s ribbon tweeter ELX line.

A RAAL true ribbon tweeter and a 6” SEAS Curv midrange in its own sealed chamber sit between two 6” long-throw SEAS woofers in a laminated bamboo cabinet.

The revised Sierra Horizon center with a custom RAAL true ribbon tweeter, an underhung mineral-filled polypropylene midrange and two long-throw woofers on cast aluminum frames, in a laminated bamboo cabinet.

Ribbon tweeter and a dense, low-resonance bamboo cabinet give it well-controlled horizontal directivity, since the driver sizes blend together effectively.

Adding a second Luna woofer improves efficiency and reduces distortion versus the standard Ascend Acoustics Sierra Luna, and the RAAL ribbon tweeter carries over.

A two-way standmount with a ribbon tweeter and a woven cone woofer.

US-manufactured 2-way with a custom SEAS silk dome tweeter and low harmonic distortion.

Ascend’s original Horizon center uses the same drivers and internal volume as its Sierra Tower, with a RAAL ribbon tweeter in a laminated bamboo cabinet.

A two-way center with a SEAS 27mm soft dome tweeter between two 6.5” long-throw woofers and a high 90dB anechoic sensitivity.