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| Review ATC SCM 40 A floorstanders.....finally @peter_s The best overall floor stander or “tower” in the ATC line up is the SCM 150 Active or SCM 50 Active (depending on room size with the 50 suitable for smaller rooms).The best bang for the buck would be ATC SCM 40 Active. The 50 and upward... | |
| Review ATC SCM 40 A floorstanders.....finally The volume issue is simply that they are voiced at realistic music levels. The equal loudness contours effectvmeans that relatively speaking ATCs sweetspot (where treble and bass are balanced) is a little higher than your typical smilie EQ speaker... | |
| Dac selections All are excellent choices. Alternative to these could be RMI ADI 2 Pro or Teac 501.Lots of great DACs out there. Mytek is bit further back from the front row seating presentation of the other two but not much in it.Benchmark is robust and will han... | |
| Are many audiophiles only seeking approval of the next purchase? Yes. Absolutely. Some folks take decades to discover what some already know here. Many folks never get further than their comfort zone. Some kick themselves when it finally dawns on them that equipment selected by leading artists, top sound engine... | |
| It was 50 years ago today.... As musicians the Beatles were rather rudimentary and unremarkable.As song writers, the Beatles were perhaps the greatest of all time. So many memorable melodies and great lyrics. I never choose to listen to the Beatles but I heard them so much gro... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. Yes for me it is low jitter, better differential linearity and less noise with 6 bit sigma delta DACs that are the reason for recent improvements in sound.Upsampling helps randomize differential non-linearity. As usual, noise is always assumed to ... | |
| Review ATC SCM 40 A floorstanders.....finally @celtic66 All pale in comparison.My experience exactly. I have been using ATCs in various forms since 1994. I keep auditioning other speakers - most recently a top of the line Monitor Audio. Other SOTA speakers are indeed extremely good and I co... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. Totally agree. DACs are finally getting things right. Although upsampling has been used for at least 20 years it is only recently that the higher quality of the upsampling/filtering has improved enough to really make digital more analogue sounding... | |
| Review ATC SCM 40 A floorstanders.....finally Welcome to a rather exclusive club. There is nothing quite like Active ATCs. Revealing, immediate and yet entirely natural sounding.You join the likes of Diana Krall to Mark Knopfler. Jack White to Coldplay to Sting to Enya to Pink Floyd. Countles... | |
| Music similar to Mike Oldfield Check out Jean Michel Jarre. Walter/Wendy Carlos. Try also early Rush 2112, hemispheres and a Farewell to Kings (Xanadu). Depeche Mode Construction Time. Jethro Tull. | |
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| Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life! It sounds to me like many of the contributors here have consumed quantities of mind altering substances and that accounts for the confused, disoriented, juvenile imaginings here!LOL. Confused. Disoriented. Yes.Hardly Juvenile though.Music is far f... | |
| Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life! @geoffkait Agreed. It is frustrating in a way. May be Carl just got carried away by his enthusiastic dreams. We are aware of our universe and billions of galaxies but nevertheless at our current level of understanding we can only watch and appreci... | |
| Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life! @dave_b Thx. Great post. Reminding me that Sting is such an intellectual. In these lyrics he really expresses the connectedness we all feel at times. I am as far from being a hippie as it gets but I still sense the connectedness in absolutely eve... | |
| MQA is Legit! Well, in my case I tried it, and can’t hear a difference. What’s more, the consensus of the SF Audiophile society that I talked to was the same. No one could hear anything. I find this astonishing. I wonder if most setups do not preserve phase acc... |