Donny tested some prototypes and obviously his judgement is suspect. With a subwoofer our bookshelf speakers were decent, but my Ascend 170s smoked them all around. I just couldn't rationalize finishing production (which had been stalled for 3 years). We're going to liquidate the drivers for that model -- around 100 FR-125 (CSS) and 400+ HiVi T28 tweeters. I nearly left them in China for land-fill but doubled down to get them over here. Both are excellent drivers.
Donny, although you desire to see me bankrupted (again) by a dead-end speaker project, Melissa and I would love to have you and yours over for dinner some time. Reach out, bro.