Dr. John Richardson reviews the new SCM11 for Stereomojo.
The review can be read in full here SCM11 Stereomojo Review
Jason Kennedy has reviewed our new SCM11 for the Hi-Fi Wigwam website.
The review can be read in full here: SCM11 Hi-Fi Wigwam Review
Here’s a little taster of what Jason had to say:
“This speaker is capable of communicating the message in the music to a greater degree than virtually all the competition at the price… I suggest that you listen to a pair of ATCs, if it’s this pair all the better because you’ll struggle to find more musical thrill power for your money elsewhere.” Jason Kennedy, Hi-Fi Wigwam, March 2014
This months issue of Stereophile magazine features a review of our new SCM7 passive 2-way, the smallest of the new Hi-Fi passive series and the first loudspeaker in our range to feature the new ATC designed-and-built tweeter. The review, written by, John Marks as part of his regular feature, “The Fifth Element” covers many aspects of the loudspeakers performance and a little ATC history too. You can read the review in full on the Stereophile website.
Next months edition will also feature measurements of the SCM7 from Stereophile’s editor, John Atkinson.
ATC’s new SIACD DAC/CD/Integrated is reviewed in the February edition of Gramophone Magazine. Here’s just small snippet of what Andrew Everard had to say about the product,
“This is a no-compromise ‘music centre’ for those willing to look beyond the mini-system norm, hand-built in Britain, backed with a six-year warranty and capable of delivering the kind of sound for which you might expect to need a separate CD player, amplifier and power amp. It’s really not hard to see the appeal of this package…”
The SIACD and the February edition of Gramophone are available now.
Click here to jump to the SIACD product page.
November 4th 2013
Designed for small to medium scale stereo and multi-channel applications, two new models incorporate a wholly ATC designed and built tweeter, and stylishly curved cabinets.
Featuring the new ATC designed and built 25mm soft dome tweeter, updated bass/mid drivers and crossovers housed in a curved, laminated cabinet, the first of a new range of ATC closed-box passive loudspeakers has arrived. The second generation SCM19 and second gen. SCM40 are the first to employ ATC’s landmark SH25-76 tweeter, developed to satisfy the company’s long-established rigour in drive unit engineering. The loudspeakers join the new SCM7 and SCM11 to complete the new ATC Hi-Fi Passive Series line up.
SH25-76 Tweeter
Sharing technology with the renowned ATC soft domed mid-range drive unit, the new tweeter employs a unique dual suspension system suppressing rocking modes even at high power output levels. The ATC configuration of a short edge-wound voice coil in a long, narrow magnetic gap ensures exceptionally low distortion throughout its operating band and removes the need for ferrofluids, which can dry out over time, compromising performance.
A complex, shaped, soft-domed diaphragm extends high frequency range and offers a smooth off-axis response. The tweeter’s 15,000 gauss (1.5 tesla) neodymium magnet has a black heat-treated top plate, which dissipates heat away from the voice coil to maintain high power handling and low power compression. A precision-machined 5.5mm rigid alloy waveguide provides optimum dispersion, a flat on-axis frequency response and resonance-free operation.
New Cabinets and Systems
Establishing what is to be a new style for ATC’s most competitively priced range of loudspeakers, and joining the new SCM7 and SCM11 launched earlier in the year, the new SCM19 and SCM40 benefit acoustically and aesthetically from a curved cabinet construction. Braced and laminated for high rigidity and damping, the curved enclosures in real cherry or black ash veneer also impart a strong impression of design quality. Improved crossovers featuring metallised polypropylene capacitors, large air cored inductors and ceramic wire-round resistors offer superior power handling and clarity. Each new model exhibits an impedance curve free from low values, presenting an easy load for amplifiers of 75 to 300 watts. The SCM19 and SCM40 are designed for optimum performance with the grill in place – although the difference in performance without the grill is minimal. The metal grille, finished in anthracite grey, fixes to the cabinet via hidden magnets. According to tradition, each model number represents internal cabinet volume in litres.
Second Generation SCM19
ATC’s SH25-76 soft dome tweeter is joined by the company’s highly linear 150mm mid/bass driver. It features an integrated 75mm soft dome – exceptional for its horizontal dispersion of mid-band frequencies – and a huge 9kg high-energy, ‘Super Linear’ magnet system, which includes a 75mm diameter flat wire, underhung voice coil, meticulously milled and formed by ATC. The magnet system and a carefully weighted doped fabric cone assembly contribute to the SCM19’s wide bandwidth, impressive dynamic range and convincing bass output coupled with very low distortion as a result of the unique ‘Super Linear’ motor system.
Second Generation SCM40
The new SCM40 features ATC’s new SH25-76 tweeter with a ATC’s renowned 75mm/3” Soft Dome mid-range and a 164mm, short coil – long gap (underhung) bass driver. The three-way design and inclusion of the Soft Dome mid results in excellent clarity, even at high drive levels with bass heavy souce material. It also gives wide, even dispersion resulting in excellent stereo imaging and un-fussy positioning in the home. The new model also benefits from crossover revisions that have improved the loudspeakers overall balance and the integration between mid and high frequency elements.
Manufactured in-house, the new SCM19 and SCM40 offer the ownership of a hand-built ruggedly engineered speaker, world famous for musical accuracy and high power output. Like all ATC products, the new models are backed by a six-year warranty.
PRICING: Please contact ATC or your local dealer or distributor for pricing applicable to your country.
AVAILABILITY: 16th Decemeber 2013
Wide, Consistent and Accurate Response: and that’s just the Awards!
ATC isn’t known for its hubris, but when our SCM11 is so frequently acclaimed by the UK’s leading home entertainment magazine, you’ll forgive us a little satisfaction. We’re delighted in fact to report that the latest evolution of SCM11 has again been recognised for its superior engineering with another What Hi Fi? Sound & Vision award, which joins no fewer than six similar accolades from the magazine. This wide, consistent and dare we say accurate response perfectly reflects the qualities of the speaker and is a record unprecedented in the history of the title, which selects from he widest pool of products.
Upgraded by our new landmark SH25-76 tweeter hand-built at Stroud, the new 100% pure ATC SCM11 has received What Hi Fi’s ‘Best Standmount Speaker £800-£1500’ award for 2013. The citation says: “These are the most talented standmounters anywhere near this price…nearly everything we’ve come to love about the originals has received a remarkable boost…the new SCM11s are a drastic improvement over an already talented performance, and they have the good looks to match. ATC has raised the bar it set itself. This isn’t just a step up – it’s a running leap.”
The new SCM11 is the first of a new range of passive monitors launching over the next six months.
Latest award joins these:
2011 SCM11 Best Standmount Speaker £700-£1500
2010 SCM11 Best Stereo Speakers £600-£1000
2009 SCM11 Best Stereo Speakers £600-£1000
2008 SCM11 Best Stereo Speakers £500-£1000
2007 SCM11 Best Stereo Speakers £500-£1000
2006 SCM11 Best Stereo Speakers £750-£1000
Click here to visit the SCM11’s product page.
“ATC has struck gold again. These are the most talented standmounters anywhere near this price”
Read the What HiFi? 5 star review here.
Designed for small to medium scale stereo and multi-channel applications, two new models incorporate a wholly ATC designed and built tweeter, and stylishly curved cabinets.
Featuring the new ATC designed and built 25mm soft dome tweeter, updated bass/mid drivers and crossovers housed in a curved, laminated cabinet, the first of a new range of ATC closed-box passive loudspeakers has arrived. The third generation SCM7 and second gen. SCM11 are the first to employ ATC’s landmark SH25-76 tweeter, developed to satisfy the company’s long-established rigour in drive unit engineering.
SH25-76 Tweeter
Sharing technology with the renowned ATC soft domed mid-range drive unit, the new tweeter employs a unique dual suspension system suppressing rocking modes even at high power output levels. The ATC configuration of a short edge-wound voice coil in a long, narrow magnetic gap ensures exceptionally low distortion throughout its operating band and removes the need for ferrofluids, which can dry out over time, compromising performance.
A complex, shaped, soft-domed diaphragm extends high frequency range and offers a smooth off-axis response. The tweeter’s 15,000 gauss (1.5 tesla) neodymium magnet has a black heat-treated top plate, which dissipates heat away from the voice coil to maintain high power handling and low power compression. A precision-machined 5.5mm rigid alloy waveguide provides optimum dispersion, a flat on-axis frequency response and resonance-free operation.
New Cabinets and Systems
Establishing what is to be a new style for ATC’s most competitively priced range of loudspeakers, the new SCM7 and SCM11 benefit acoustically and aesthetically from a curved cabinet construction. Braced and laminated for high rigidity and damping, the curved enclosures in real cherry or black ash veneer also impart a strong impression of design quality. Improved crossovers featuring metallised polypropylene capacitors, large air cored inductors and ceramic wire-round resistors offer superior power handling and clarity. Each new model exhibits an impedance curve free from low values, presenting an easy load for amplifiers of 75 to 300 watts. The SCM7 and SCM11 are designed for optimum performance without the grille – although a full-length perforated metal grille, finished in anthracite grey to match the drive unit face plates, is supplied. According to tradition, each model number represents internal cabinet volume in litres.
Third Generation SCM7
ATC’s SH25-76 soft dome tweeter is joined by the company’s highly linear 125mm mid/bass driver. It features a 45mm soft dome – exceptional for its horizontal dispersion of mid-band frequencies – and a huge 3.5kg high-energy magnet system, which includes a 45mm flat wire voice coil, meticulously milled and formed by ATC. The magnet system and a carefully weighted doped fabric cone assembly contribute to the SCM7’s wide bandwidth, impressive dynamic range and convincing bass output – all from a tiny seven litre cabinet. Click here to jump to the SCM7’s product page.
Second Generation SCM11
The new SCM11 features ATC’s SH25-76 with an ATC CLD 150mm mid-bass driver incorporating a 45mm soft dome. Constrained Layer Damping is a driver cone technology exclusive to ATC and represents a step-change in driver-to-system performance. Advantages include reduced harmonic distortion between 300Hz and 3 kHz, an extended frequency response that eases constraints on the crossover filter slope, and improved off-axis response. Click here to jump to the SCM11’s product page.
Manufactured in-house, the new SCM7 and SCM11 offer the ownership of a hand-built ruggedly engineered speaker, world famous for musical accuracy and high power output. Like all ATC products, the new models are backed by a six-year warranty.
Please contact your local dealer or distributor for pricing.
Products available from mid – September.
ATC (Acoustic Transducer Company) of Britain has appointed Lone Mountain Audio as its new U.S. distributor for the consumer Hi-Fi products, along with the formation of its new company, Lone Mountain Audio based in Las Vegas, NV.
ATC is a manufacturer of handcrafted loudspeakers formed in 1974 that can be found in prominent recording and film studios worldwide.
ATC’s home audio loudspeakers are handcrafted, hand varnished and designed with ATC’s own drivers, crossovers, amplifiers and preamplifiers.
Janis and Brad Lunde, owners of Lone Mountain Audio, are not newcomers at ATC Loudspeakers. They have been representing ATC Professional products in the U.S. for thirteen years as the TransAudio Group, a Pro Audio Sales business established in 2000. The formation of Lone Mountain Audio is simple, to keep the Pro and Consumer sales and marketing businesses separated with different people and focus, and a user experience tailored to each channels market.
Lone Mountain Audio’s president Brad Lunde states, “I am thrilled to now represent ATC in the Consumer Hi-Fi Channel where I can demonstrate to both audiophiles and music lover enthusiasts with the idea of bringing “the Studio Experience” to the home. They’ll be blown away as to what they’ve been missing – in the recordings that is.”
ATC’s founder and owner, Billy Woodman said: “Brad Lunde is ATC’s established and very successful U.S. distributor of professional products and I am now pleased to announce that Brad and Lone Mountain Audio will also distribute ATC’s high-fidelity loudspeakers and electronics to all those music enthusiasts in the US who love music and quality, high-resolution audio.
“At Lone Mountain Audio we are convinced that once you hear music reproduction done right, you’ll understand what Lenny Kravitz, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Diana Krall, Jack White, Blackbird Studios, Doug Sax Mastering, Alan Myerson, Shawn Murphy and so many more recording artists have known about ATC for a long time. What’s most amazing is that they tell us how much ATC helps them hear what is really going on. That nothing they’ve tried works like ATC at stripping away the veil to reveal the details, the truth.”
Visit Lone Mountain Audio at the upcoming fall Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver to hear the ATC studio experience firsthand.
Lone Mountain Audio Distribution
7340 Smoke Ranch Road, Suite A
Las Vegas, NV 89128
(Visits by appointment only).
Tel: +702 307 2727
Fax: +702 365 5145
We are sad to relate that the funeral of Jeroen Hansma took place yesterday. Jeroen was our Dutch distributor for many years and was also a friend. His honesty and integrity will be missed by us all. His tragic death in a climbing accident was a great shock and we would extend our deepest condolences to his family.
The new, compact, SIACD expands on, and is styled to match ATC’s range of stand-alone electronic products for home installation. The SIACD is built to the same design and manufacturing standards as the company’s internationally renowned professional audio products.
Overview
This new product is designed as a simple yet versatile one-box solution for D-A conversion, CD playback, pre and power amplification duties. The SIACD is housed in a rugged yet elegant chassis, only 315mm/12.4” wide. Styling compliments the rest of ATC’s range of outboard pre and power amplifiers and the product is available in both black and silver brushed and anodised finishes.
Whereas many other manufacturers’ favour class-D power amp technology for compact devices, ATC have based the power amp design on the class A/B circuits employed in their highest performance professional, active loudspeakers, thus ensuring the highest possible performance of this vital element of an all-in-one player amplifier. In this revised design, ATC engineers have made further improvements to their discrete MOSFET output stage to give vanishingly low levels of distortion, very wide bandwidth and a reduced idle temperature. Maximum output power is 100W per channel, continuous, into 8 ohms with both channels driven. The resolution offered by this approach is simply above and beyond what is available from most ‘high-end’ stand-alone power amplifiers, let alone ‘all-in-one’ player/amplifiers.
The preamp/DAC stage features two, line level, stereo, analogue inputs and three digital inputs. Both analogue inputs are equipped with rear panel mounted, RCA/phono connections. One of the two inputs also features a front panel mounted 3.5mm jack input for simple connection to portable music players. The USB, SPDIF and optical inputs are mounted on the rear panel. The DAC utilises Wolfson’s WM8740 chipset and is compatible with 16 to 24 bit word lengths and sample rates up to 192kHz (coaxial and optical digital inputs only). Excellent digital clock recovery ensures signal integrity is maintained even with poorer quality digital sources and the SIACD. The USB input is compatible with word lengths up to 16 bits and sample frequencies up to 48kHz and is galvanically isolated from the digital source via a high performance transformer. The SIACD headphone amplifier is specified to drive a very wide range of headphone sensitivities and impedances. It features very low distortion and noise and an extremely wide and flat frequency response for best possible performance. The headphone output is front panel mounted.
The chassis is constructed from a combination of steel and aluminium and uses constrained layer damping to control panel resonances. The front panel is machined from an extruded section of 13mm/0.5” aluminium alloy with a brushed and anodised silver or black finish. All the user controls are machined from solid aluminium.
For more details and photos, click here – SIACD
Further details on ATC products in Hong Kong and The Peoples Republic of China, please contact:
Sound Concepts
Stereo Kingdom,
Room 1402, 14/F,
No.1 Duddell Street,
Central,
Hong Kong
Tel: 2524-1881
Contact Person: Mr. Jacky Woo
Email: info@hksoundconcepts.com
