"When we started our venture in 2014, we wrote, ‘The CCRM12-MKII marks the absolute spearhead in the field of coaxial cinema monitors’. How time flies,” states Geoffrey Heinzel, Partner & Director of International Sales and Marketing at Ascendo. “Fast forward to 2021, this statement is being replaced by the fact that the newly released CCRM15 Beryllium is taking this position. The CCRM15 Beryllium is an extremely impressive and extraordinary performing musical speaker system, that leaves nothing to be desired.”
Although it is one of the most expensive materials used to make speaker diaphragms, Beryllium possesses the highest stiffness-to-weight ratio of any known metal and can deliver dramatically superior results when properly incorporated into a speaker design. The speed of sound through Beryllium is nearly 2.5 times faster than through aluminum or titanium. Therefore, the first breakup will occur at a much higher frequency — well outside the audible range. Breakup occurs when the cone partially vibrates at certain audible frequencies and therefore isn’t entirely pistonic throughout its range. This leads to non-linearities in the amplitude response as well as stored energy in the time domain. It is precisely these characteristics that give the CCRM15 Beryllium the ability to reproduce amazing detail and clarity, free of resonances, so that even the finest details are all there to be experienced.
In the Active CCRM15 Beryllium, the expertly engineered Beryllium compression driver is centrically arranged in the back of the 15" mid-woofer unit, and both drivers are driven by a DSP-controlled two-channel digital amplifier. Their results merge perfectly and allow for a time and phase-coherent lifelike reproduction of all-acoustic events with reference levels in every seat. The brain can therefore relax and stop trying to process the timing and phase errors far too common in other speaker designs.
Ascendo's proprietary DSP technology works in combination with the enclosure and coaxial driver design to deliver ultra-precise and incredibly fast impulse response. Each channel of CCRM15 Beryllium is capable of incredible SPL levels, but also the more impressive dynamic contrasts from whispering dialogues to explosive effects. "The volume ranges your home theatre speakers need to be able to handle without audible distortion is huge, especially if you look for a reference level director’s cut performance - this level difference from softest to loudest sounds yields incredible dynamic range. Even the most complex film passages with extreme dynamic requirements are reproduced at the highest clarity and lowest distortion. Imagine a life-like drum solo rendered exactly to the point by hearing and feeling the tremendous dynamic leaps of a bass drum and snare, while at the same time the humming of cymbals fading away airily into the dark silence of the room giving way to the tiniest of fine details," Geoffrey Heinzel adds.
As with all other Ascendo products, the CCRM15 speakers use advanced audio-over-IP technology combined with a sophisticated system user interface allowing for an unprecedented level of control and flexibility to the system calibrator. The Ascendo CCRM15 coaxial monitors are a vented design in a birch ply cabinet that is able to cover a frequency range from 55Hz up to 20kHz and deliver 128dB of continuous SPL with a symmetric dispersion of 85°x85°. When combined with Ascendo’s SMS Reference subwoofers these CCRM15 speakers will create unimaginable realism of sound paired with sheer limitless dynamics.
All systems ship with standard black finish, and there are custom color options with a genuine piano lacquer finish (12 layers), or matt lacquer, available upon request. Shape customization and mounting options are also available.
Home Technology Association
Ascendo Immersive Audio (AIA) is dedicated to the development, design, and production of state-of-the-art home theater systems using active and passive speakers, the most advanced digital electronics, subwoofers and infrasonic subwoofers. Sutherland AV Marketing, the company's North American Distributor, and Ascendo, have joined the Home Technology Association (HTA) as a supporting brand member.
“The Home Technology Association is the industry’s leading organization for qualifying, recognizing, and promoting the best home technology professionals. Their integrator members are ideal partners for the specification of Ascendo cinema systems, and I look forward to presenting the technological and performance advantages of this amazing line of products to them. We hope to complete construction of the HTE/Ascendo/Trinnov theater in Connecticut in late 2021, as one example of planned demonstration locations,” states Todd Sutherland, industry veteran and owner of Sutherland AV Marketing.
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