What we know about the measurement:
Ascend Acoustics CBM-170 SE is a passive bookshelves speaker that cost around 400USD for a pair .
- Quality of the measurement data is high .
- Origin of the data is ASR .
- Format of the data is generated by a Klippel NFS .
- Sensitivity: 88.4dB (avg. 100Hz-1kHz for 2.83V measured at 1m)
- -3dB (resp. -6db) point v.s. reference is at 85.7Hz (resp. 66.7Hz).
- Reference level is normalised to 0.2dB computed over the frequency range [300.0Hz, 5000.0Hz].
- Frequency deviation is 1.9dB over the same frequency range.
- Directivity
- Horizontal directivity is (-70.0°, 60.0°) between 1kHz and 10kHz. Angle computed for +/-6dB.
- Vertical directivity is (-30.0°, 30.0°) between 1kHz and 10kHz. Angle computed for +/-6dB.
- Tonality (Preference) Score
- Tonality (Preference) Score is 3.9
and would be 6.6 with a
perfect subwoofer.
- Details: NBD: ON 0.38, LW 0.32, SP 0.42, PIR 0.37; SM: SP0.61, PIR0.43; LFQ 0.5, LFX 62Hz
- Tonality (Preference) Score is 6.1
with an EQ and would be 8.5 with a
perfect subwoofer and the same EQ.
- Details: NBD: ON 0.28, LW 0.24, SP 0.27, PIR 0.23; SM: SP0.92, PIR0.93; LFQ 0.46, LFX 50Hz
- Tonality (Preference) Score is 3.9
and would be 6.6 with a
perfect subwoofer.
- Link to Original review.