{"id":3045,"date":"2014-09-30T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T11:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atc.audio\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2016-05-25T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T20:46:00","slug":"hi-fi-wigwam-stunned-by-atc-scm40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atc.audio\/zh\/2014\/09\/hi-fi-wigwam-stunned-by-atc-scm40\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi-Fi Wigwam stunned by ATC SCM40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi-Fi Wigwam&#8217;s James Palmer absolutely loved our SCM40 floorstanders and reviews them in full for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hifiwigwam.com\/atc-scm40-giant-killers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Hi-Fi Wigwam website<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atc.audio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATC-SCM40-speaker_no-grill-edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2491\" alt=\"ATC SCM40 speaker_no grill-edit\" src=\"http:\/\/atc.audio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATC-SCM40-speaker_no-grill-edit-190x300.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atc.audio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATC-SCM40-speaker_no-grill-edit-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/atc.audio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATC-SCM40-speaker_no-grill-edit-88x140.jpg 88w, https:\/\/atc.audio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATC-SCM40-speaker_no-grill-edit-648x1024.jpg 648w, https:\/\/atc.audio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ATC-SCM40-speaker_no-grill-edit.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are couple highlights from the review:<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s what I want from HiFi. I want an insight, I want to feel like the Guitar amp is in front of me, the kick drums are not far behind and to feel involved in the music at a very live and connected level. Nothing else I have heard in a small living room has managed this feat. These do it with ease, they don\u2019t shout at you, and don\u2019t need to be played loud to sound their best,\u00a0 they deliver whether you are listening to Steely Dan, or Metallica, JS Bach or Phillip Glass.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The bass is so taught, yet thunderously deep. My room is shockingly difficult for bass bloom, yet the ATC\u2019s have everything under control. Deep and tuneful, in a way that is entirely new at WigWam towers. I know I\u2019ve said similar before, about other speakers, mia culpa, these are better. Trust me, these are better.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The bottom line.. I\u2019m sold. I can\u2019t live without them. I need them in my life and will have to make the change. Putting my Living Voice OBX R2\u2032s back in was pleasing and frustrating in equal measure. Yes, they are a lovely listen, but the lack of comparative\u00a0 clarity and speed is something that I can\u2019t live with. Many will disagree, in some systems the SCM40\u2032s will sound too revealing. If the electronics are forward, they will sound forward and with this much detail that will be too much. Audition carefully, but please, do audition. In the right system, you would have to spend \u00a310k to get anywhere close to this sound quality. Genuinely, you could piano gloss them and change the labels, hawk them round the European shows and sell plenty at \u00a310k a pair\u2026. erm\u2026 anyone know a French Polisher? I\u2019m off.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>James Palmer, Hi-Fi Wigwam, September 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi-Fi Wigwam&#8217;s James Palmer absolutely loved our  [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hifi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atc.audio\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atc.audio\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atc.audio\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atc.audio\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atc.audio\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atc.audio\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4495,"href":"https:\/\/atc.audio\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions\/4495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atc.audio\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atc.audio\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atc.audio\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}