Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound

https://atc.audio/professional/loudspeakers/scm100asl-pro/
These will leave a mark.  Believe 115 db output.  Transients are immediate.  Best of luck on your quest.

Jay's Audio on Youtube announced this weekend that Von Schweikert speakers are comparable to Sonus Faber and Magico if they had a baby, high resolution, huge dynamics, huge soundstage and musicality.  Even the new VR 30 speaker with a pair of 10" VS subs can fill a large room or balance a small room with the adjustable (not in DSP/digital domain) subs permitting easy speaker placement and fundamentals to shake your room. 

@faustuss Wrote:

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05-06-2025 at 02:58am 

@ditusa Bill Woodman who founded ATC in 1974 solved this problem by using "underslung" edge wound voice coils in a longer and tighter gap which eliminated the "offset" issue while reducing distortion up to 20dB throughout the driver's frequency range. In addition, this reduces the usual swings in impedance as well as radical changes in phase angels resulting in flat impedance response without resonances. The caveat being the need for enormous magnet structures along with considerable reduction in efficiency. Essentially though, you could use any type of amplifier typology to drive their speakers without harm to the amplifier but to get the speaker system to come alive you need minimally a hundred watts high current solid-state power.

Thanks for the post. Remember Bill Woodman and Edmond May see here. 

Mike

Here's a Meyer Sound story FWIW. 

Around 2010 the studio I worked for was looking for monitors for a new room. We demoed a few contenders including a 15inch Meyer horn system. I don't remember the model but they were in the $25k range. We played both good and bad recordings in the testing to make sure we could hear the difference. The Meyers sounded fabulous on everything, even the known bad recordings. For that reason we chose another brand but that was for studio use. For home listening, they might be perfect. 

@ditusa Lovely! Thank you so much!

"This profile opened with the assessment that Ed May was one of the most accomplished acoustic engineers of the past half century. This may seem to be overstating the case since the body of his published work is actually quite small. Nonetheless, the quality of his work, sheer output and influence in the industry speaks volumes. This is best exemplified by the quote at the end of this profile. It is by Bill Woodman, founder and senior designer for ATC Acoustic Engineers of Cotswold, England. ATC is one of the most respected manufacturers of high-end studio monitors and home speakers. Even though he never met Ed, here is what Bill had to say in a 2000 interview:

"The man who inspired me mostly, in truth, was Ed May, one of the very early designers at JBL. A lot of the thinking he incorporated, we've incorporated into our design. All one can hope to do is better engineer what is already known""

Thanks for the post. Remember Bill Woodman and Edmond May see here. 

Mike