Any reviews/impressionsons of Ascend Sierra 2?

My impressions were different than many. I tried them, send them back before the 30 day were up. Just didn't care or them, think they were overpriced. A decent $1k speaker at best not for 1.5k. Too many other speakers in that price range to consider.  Like many have echoed, different people hear different things. Good part, you get 30 days to try them.

No one speaker will satisfy 100% of audiophiles, that is a fact.  I've owned speakers from Boston Acoustics, Polk, Mission, Energy, Mirage, Camber, Paradigm, Tannoy and Ascend.  There are many more brands out there succeeding, because of people's preferences.  

I've talked with "audiophiles" that prefer the lowly Paradigm Titan V2 or 3.  For the money, it offers great bang for buck, but put it beside a good quality current bookshelf, and it will be shredded.   But the Titan fans will say, "it doesn't sound like my Titans, I don't like it".   End of story, you can't make people like superior SQ.  

Some are used to dome or even metal dome tweeters, and expect the ribbon to sound like that.  But a dome is an inferior design, a good ribbon will be more faithful to the actual music.

Then there is the band wagon purchaser.  The Kef LS50 is a decent speaker, but not for $1500.  The -3db bass frequency point is 79db.  79!!  And it is only rated for up to 100 watts with a sensitivity of 85.  It does look really good, though.  I've seen photos of people proudly displaying their Kef's with two(!) subs, one under each LS50.  For the money spent they could have purchased a really nice pair of bookshelf speakers.  But they followed the crowd, and then realized they have no bass.  There's a sucker born every minute.

I am using the LS50's for my desktop system and think the concentric tweeter helps for nearfield imaging and soundstage, since they are so nearfield, but am curious how the Sierra 2 and LS50 compares...

213runnin, by the way, I am very pleased with the LS50's bass response. I do have a couple of subs under my desk-top setup, however occasionally I turn them off for comparison to being on, and sometimes forget they are off, and not notice much of a difference. I think they will be hard to beat for my purpose for nearfield due to their addictive coherence with the concentric driver.

I don't know about the nearfield listening with Sierra 2, I'm about 12 to 13 feet away and they're getting 150 wpc.  In my humble opinion, if you turn the subs off and can hardly tell much of a difference, then you subs are turned too low, or the material might be bass light.  Either way, if you are happy with the sound, then that's all that matters.