yodathekid
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The worst seat in my room is the far left one, because the side surround on that wall ends up roughly an arm's length from somebody's ear. That listener gets a hot, bright, obviously-a-box-on-the-wall version of the surround mix while everyone else gets something sane. Every fix I have tried has been a compromise: toe the speaker away, pad it down, live with it.
So the pitch behind ASCENDO's new Panoramic Surface On-Wall is aimed straight at a problem that genuinely exists. They have dropped the usual cone-and-dome arrangement for what they call a full-range composite radiating surface, and claim a radiation pattern approaching 180 degrees held all the way up to 20 kHz. If that holds, tonal balance stops collapsing as you move off axis and the near-seat problem gets a lot smaller. They also make a point about running the thing very close to the boundary to cut front-wall SBIR, which is fair, though a shallow on-wall was always going to be closer to the wall than a box on a bracket.
My scepticism is about what you give up. Large flat radiating surfaces have historically traded away dynamics and low-end control for that wide pattern, and an ultra-shallow enclosure has very little internal volume, so the crossover to subs is presumably sitting high. None of that is published. No price either, and no polar plots, which for a speaker whose entire argument is dispersion is a strange thing to leave out.
It goes into a 9.8.4 demo at CEDIA in SR10, driven by a StormAudio ISR Fusion 20. If anyone here gets into that room, sit somewhere terrible on purpose and report back.
So the pitch behind ASCENDO's new Panoramic Surface On-Wall is aimed straight at a problem that genuinely exists. They have dropped the usual cone-and-dome arrangement for what they call a full-range composite radiating surface, and claim a radiation pattern approaching 180 degrees held all the way up to 20 kHz. If that holds, tonal balance stops collapsing as you move off axis and the near-seat problem gets a lot smaller. They also make a point about running the thing very close to the boundary to cut front-wall SBIR, which is fair, though a shallow on-wall was always going to be closer to the wall than a box on a bracket.
My scepticism is about what you give up. Large flat radiating surfaces have historically traded away dynamics and low-end control for that wide pattern, and an ultra-shallow enclosure has very little internal volume, so the crossover to subs is presumably sitting high. None of that is published. No price either, and no polar plots, which for a speaker whose entire argument is dispersion is a strange thing to leave out.
It goes into a 9.8.4 demo at CEDIA in SR10, driven by a StormAudio ISR Fusion 20. If anyone here gets into that room, sit somewhere terrible on purpose and report back.
