![]() 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. Just get the basics right.I think it's a matter of perspective. There are some speakers which have specific requirements because it is tuned to sound right only that way, e.g using only a certain kind of cables, placing x distance from wall, using only certain variety of amps, sitting at that special height etc etc. One thing I can assure is ATC doesnt need anything special to sound good, unless something is seriously wrong in your electronics, setup or room it will never fail to make great music. If you want to buy a plug n play speaker then you are looking at casual hifi. ![]() Setting up an ATC is not very difficult after you know their basic requirements but is important else it doesnt make sense to buy it. There are many 200k amplifiers which are miserable. As you may know, such specification is not easily found even if you are ready to pay twice the price of this speaker. Power fed to it should be of high quality in the first place and at least 75-100 watts for SCM11 to make it sing. Secondly, yes an ATC needs clean power, with good current. In case of SCM19 it takes close to 1000 hours. We are talking about 500 hours, not 200 hours. It is good to buy second hand ATC because that you will save you from the painful burn in process. So 75k is hardly a deal, unless you are dead sure it is less than a year old and is well maintained. Nikhil, an ATC SCM11 can be had brand new with papers and warranty from a dealer for roughly about 95k. There are also some strange listings showing up on Olx and Quickr for SCM 50 and 100s which are $$$ speakers! Not sure what to make of them but it sure seems like a container load of ATC speakers fell of a bus somewhere. I'm starting to wonder if there is a number of these monitor speakers being flogged in the used market after probably misguided purchases or heavy use in the pro studios. The real question is that's a whopping 40% off list price for just 4-6 months use. ![]() I am just curious about this because similarly priced Dynaudio bookshelf are available at close to the 75K figure on the used market. I am also aware that there are a few speakers available at Rs 65K - 75K in the used market. I know that the ATCs are known to require at least 200 hrs break in but the dealer said 50 hrs is plenty. While the sound was good it was really hard on the ears about 15-20 mins into the audition. I had a chance to listen to a brand new pair at the Hyderabad Dealer on Friday. One of my candidates are the ATC SCM 11 monitors. I've been auditioning speakers a bit recently.
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