Tidal vs ATC


Thinking about my end game speaker and seriously considering one from either brand. On the Tidal camp looking at either the Contriva G2 or Agoria and on the ATC camp the SCM150 or SCM300.
Any thoughts on this battle? The tidal I know is a truly amazing speaker. The contriva g2 is the best I've heard and has an amazing finish.  But I see insane praise from ATC for being a very accurate and extremely well made speaker. Only issue is I have no local dealers for ATC in canada. Maybe after the pandemic is over I'll fly to USA to hear them... but honestly even that makes me a bit nervous with all this going on.
Any thoughts?
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Since this thread is active again I'd like to state that the ATC150asl is back on top. Driving them with Innous Zen mk2 and Roon with Acourate convolution filters and a Matrix dac made it! (recommended for any big speaker). The response is flat to 17 Hz or something. So maybe the 300's next time...however my adviser has a lot of praise for Revel Salon 2 and Paradigm 9H...but then I would miss the impact of the 15 inch driver..
I got the ATC 150 actives. But, sorry to say, since some time they stand silent while they can not pull me away from the combination of Quested v3110 monitors with svs sb-16 subs (and a RME dac).

What you might forget in the discussion is that the bigger ATC pro speakers (from 100's and up), they come in a box yes, but are intended for soffit mounting in very well acoustically treated rooms. 

Placed in a normal room they need to be tamed through dsp (that goes of course for all big speakers with massive bass).