![]() ![]() There is a huge bass energy - watch those drivers and feel the energy - but there is also a fascinating timing interplay in the track which needs tight accurate bass - otherwise it sounds a mess - the ATC 19s on my 250 do this with ease - I have heard this track on other speaker setups - including some very large speakers fed by a Statement - and well it has sometimes sounded a mess. Another good example here is an EDM track I think this is speed and and unsmeared transients that help provide this. They are a great speaker for timing and pace - and with the right music really want to make you move or dance to the music, or some tracks you simply feel breathless at the end - as the pace and suspense slows your breathing as you get so engaged. To me this was the issue with PMC twenty5 series - choral vocals just sounded (to me) - well artificial.īut yes they attenuate a lot at the very low frequencies (the 19 for example) - not much below 35Hz - but again this is room dependent. The ATCs do provide a lovely relatively smear free high end and mid transition, essential for voices for me, and a have a lovely natural rather than soupy warmth to add atmosphere and feel. I find vocals - especially choral vocals something that requires great neutrality - i have often used as a musical reference when comparing audio equipment as you can perhaps notice from some of my posts over the years. ![]() Joerand - I guess we are all different - its the emotion that oozes from the ATCs that endears me to them - they are the only speaker I have listened to that have made my eyes well up (and I was sober) listening to certain albeit vocal tracks ieġ) Sandy Denny - The Northstar Grassman and the Ravens sung live at the Paris Theatre (not a particularly hifi recording)Ģ) Miserere mei Deus, motet for Chorus - sung by the Tallis Scholarsģ) Procession - sung by the Choir of Canterbury Cathedral Ultimately it's a home demo - find a dealer which handles a few brands who will let you home trial some over the course of a week. There are some dealers selling ex-demo ones at around £1600 (Twenty-5.21), if you can audition these I would totally urge you to - great speaker IMHO only bettered by Dynaudio but they would really need to be driven hard. However, it was the PMC's I really liked but then again, they were £700 more. Of the 2 (ATC SCM-11 and Tablette Sig 10), I would have walked away with the ProAcs. The ProAcs are a lovely little speaker - tons of PRAT and particularly good with vocals and mid-range I thought but a bit short on bass which is down to their size. By all accounts, ATC's are very fussy about stands and isolation as others on this Forum have commented in previous threads. Don't get me wrong - they're very good but I preferred the others I tried. To my ears they sounded well-balanced, clinical and dry. I was comparing the ATC's to 3 very good pairs of speakers when I demo'd them but against "lesser" products I expect I'd have been raving about them. ![]()
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