lonemountain
Responses from lonemountain
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @phusis Something tells me a primary reason why active ATC speaker models are so coherent and well sounding is due the consistency of their excellent, in-house and carefully manufactured drive units being coupled to what’s essentially the same, qu... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused A very interesting mix of perspectives in this thread! I agree with you Phusis, a lot of ways to "get there". It does baffle me why audiophiles disike amps inside the speaker, as though this is somehow more detrimental to sound than the massive hu... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused I can very much appreciate the experience of others. SpeakerDude, yes, the speakers in question are good down low without subs, almost always a 2nd order roll off. All analog from a good converter, usually a Burl. Target for max SPL (for dyna... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused Good arguments all Phusis. I can think of locations we’ve been involved in where symmetry worked; other places it did not. Visually we are always drawn to symmetry. My clients want the subs right under the mains and this "looks right". But most of... | |
| Review ATC SCM20PSL monitors 50 hours listening Kenjit I very much enjoy your posts, they are a visible display of the "buy in" to the marketing effort called "specs". You are a real life Don Quixote! You realize that manufacturers invest in published measurements to establish their marketabi... | |
| Review ATC SCM20PSL monitors 50 hours listening As I have said before, entering into a world of arguing over specs is not a world ATC wants to be in. The elephant in the "room" is the fact that a ROOM itself changes every speaker inside it so drastically that factory or ASR measured results el... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused Speaking of subs and rooms, I have to add the general trend toward smaller subs in higher quantity is proving to be a better solution for most rooms and studios. The desire for one big sub creates dominant rooms modes that are a bear to remove wi... | |
| Review ATC SCM20PSL monitors 50 hours listening m-dB Wow, that Lorraine Campet link you posted is amazing. What intonation! It was perfect. One of things with ATC that has always been a goal of Billy Woodman (founder) and the engineering department: realism via low distortion. Distortion s... | |
| Speaker Placement and Toe-In There is one missing pioce of info on this thread that affects toe in or no toe in: the off axis reposnse of the speaker itself. If the dispersion is very consistent, across the midrange and tweeter, you can live with less toe in as the off axis s... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @mijostyn You have been at this a while! I too have listened to Hill Plasmatronics and they were amazing. I've heard almost every Accustat, Maggies, KEF, Dahlquists, Time Windows, Advents, double stacked advents, and a LOT of conventional speake... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused Fred 60 I can tell you what it costs to repair an ATC active amplifer. The same as it costs to repair a regular [passive speaker] amplifier; perhaps less as with passive speaker amps, often the damage is inflicted by connectrors, or shorts in cab... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused Well said Donavabdear! Does anyone, even the most passionate Audiophile, think the amp is more important to the end sound than the transducers? Brad | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused HI Brian So fun to read your posts! Brad | |
| Break In Failed My question about break in is: how does the speaker know to stop breaking in? Brad | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused I think the one issue not addressed in responses is controlling [driver] phase to create a phase linear system. Phase control is not possible in the passive or the outboard amp active system (unless you have a very sophisticated line level crosso... |