Ascendo The6 PRO Coaxial Cinema Loudspeaker

The6 PRO sits above the standard The6 and replaces the CCRM6-P before it, and the changes are specific rather than cosmetic. Sensitivity is up by more than a decibel. The midrange, already good with a paper pulp mix, moved to a graphene carbon non-woven material. The signal path carries silver capacitors and large air core inductors.

The detail worth knowing is the switchable filters. They linearise the loudspeaker further, and they can be turned off — which matters if the room is being calibrated by Trinnov Optimizer or Dirac Live, because two correction systems working on the same problem fight each other. Ascendo built the option in rather than assuming which way an integrator would go.

The ceiling version is a different loudspeaker, not the same one rotated. It uses a coax with a neodymium motor, a 1.1-inch soft dome tweeter and a mid-woofer of highly damped sandwich carbon fibre with a foam core and rubber surround, in a shallow enclosure for ceilings where depth is the binding constraint. Its off-axis high frequency response is markedly better than the category norm, which is the specification that actually counts on a driver nobody is pointed at.