ATC

Scm25a were the ones i heard

heres one thIng i dont understand about ATC. Their cabinets even in their high end speakers are just mdf boxes. This is hardly groundbreaking. Magico spend a huge effort on their cabinets. No mdf used. So which approach is correct? is a standard mdf box good enough? or is ATC skimping on their cabinets? 

@tgrisham  whats your definition of studio accuracy?

if the midrange performance of the ATC dome is as good as it gets, why are audiophiles interested in speakers like magico, tidal and wilson? what more do these much more expensive speakers offer?

@audiotroy i agree the ATC are universally praised. The problem is so is magico, kef, ygacoustics, wilson, tidal and many others. They all sound different. How do we know whats closest to the truth?
The signal on the cd is fixed. It doesnt change. So there can only be one unique and correct way of turning that signal into soundwaves. Thats what many audiophiles seem to want including me. 

@itzhak1969  Atc may think mdf is good enough but magico does not. They cant both be right. Who is right?
Everybody that buys a magico thinks its better than an ATC. Who is right?
I dont care what you prefer I want to know whats right and whats wrong. The signal contained on a cd is fixed. So there has to be a fixed way that it should be transformed into soundwaves. you cant have two different sets of soundwaves coming off a single cd. 

what about the legacy calibre? how do they compare?

ATC has never been renowned for their cabinets in the same way that B&W is. The differences in cabinet design are numerous.
But magico takes it even further by using other materials.
The Atc speakers are all just rectangular boxes. How can the ATC be so good when they are just using plain rectangular mdf boxes ?
Even the way the driver is mounted is much more carefully designed in many high end speakers whereas ATC just screw their drivers in which is hardly optimal.

@itzhak1969 why?

@shadorne 

The fact that the speaker design and particularly the mid range are lauded and almost universally held in high regard suggests more about your individual hearing preferences or the source/setup you heard than anything else.

The same reasoning applies to ATC users. It could just be a preference.

Abbey road uses B&w. Why dont they rid of them and use ATC instead of the 800 series?

@shadorne

Larger ATC are rated at 0.3% distortion full range up to 121 dB SPL -

distortion levels are not stated by ATC on their website.

and how much cabinet resonance do you think we would be getting at such ear splitting levels? You would be getting extrene distortion, i would have thought given that youre trying to contain such high amounts of sound energy within a flimsy mdf box. The midrange dome would be even worse since all that rear energy has nowhere to go.