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If the pavilion is bulging you mean.Karl K: "There is no such thing as too high a crown as long as it has a matching pavilion."
Karl, this statement is purely bogus. Sorry, but if the crown is high and the pavilion is deep, the overall depth of the stone will make the diamond look very small for a given weight. There is something wrong with such a combination even if it performs well. Asscher cuts are a wonderful example of a great looking diamond which looks small for its weight. The problem is simply that it looks way too small visually for the weight the customer will be asked to pay. I see this as a "problem" even when a diamond performs well with light.
Far more weight is kept by cutting overly large pavilions than cutting a deep pavilion.
The worst of the lot will have both deep and portly pavilions.
Higher crowns are far less tolerant than flat tops of overly portly pavilions.
Or in more technical terms you can not run the p1 facets as far down and as steep with a higher crown and it perform well.
As far as asschers go it has been proven time and again that a specific type 75+% depth asscher had more spread to the same spread out of asschers ranging from 60% to 68% depth.
What I find funny is people who call asschers small for their weight but are fine with princess cuts which at times are even smaller and generally in the same range by mm and asschers will have a larger 3d presence.
They are both measured the same way, across the sides.