Recent content by AndyU

You can, if you ask nicely, get the anniversary/se amp packs in the standard towers.

I dare say you can, but I think the crossovers are set at the factory for your particular drive units, so you really would need to know what you are doing to fit them yourself. I know when my midrange unit developed a fault many years ago, ATC wanted the whole speaker back.

For the 50s, 100s and 150s you just use an amp pack rack kit with the standard amp packs. You can either retrofit your existing amps, or get them supplied with amps from the factory: https://atc.audio/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Amp_Pack_Rack_Kit_TDS_web.pdf The 200s and 300s get a completely...

Well evidently he was! Gary Oldman played him brilliantly I thought.

As sex scenes go it isn’t much to get excited about, and certainly not a reason to either watch or not watch the movie. Scientists are as allowed to be as horny and unfaithful as anyone else. I don’t think it is intended to be the story of the bomb, surely it is the story of Oppenheimer, who he...

I’ve watched it 3 times so far, thought it was so good I bought the BluRay. Like many of Christopher Nolan’s movies it isn’t easy, you have to get your head around the time-shifts, but I think it’s a great movie for sure. Cillian Murphy is outstanding, delighted he got the Oscar, the music is...

I used to have some EL57s back in the day. They were superb, uncanny, on the right source material they could be utterly convincing. I half remember a story that at the time a famous loudspeaker designer - I think he might‘ve worked for Wharefdale - threw in the towel after hearing them as they...

Here’s a review of ATC SCM50 Active vs passive driven by a full Monty naim rig. https://www.soundstageultra.com/index.php/equipment-menu/1135-atc-scm50-passive-active-loudspeaker “The short answer is that the actives won on solidity of soundstage, neutrality, and ultimate detail retrieval—that...

ATC are respected speaker designers, at least in some quarters, and they say the advantages of active over passive drive are: “While it is possible to design a high performance loudspeaker using passive components, an active design has a number of benefits, these are listed below; 1) More...

You can either set filters manually, or load convolution filters from another source like REW. There are also presets for Audeze headphones. Roons help is good. https://help.roonlabs.com/portal/en/kb/articles/dsp-engine-convolution#Loading_a_filter_into_Roon

I take back everything I said about air. In fact, ATC150s are used in all three of AIR Studios mastering suites. https://www.mixonline.com/the-wire/air-studios-opens-two-new-mastering-suites-in-london Obviously they didn’t get the message about ancient hifi rubbish. What do they know.

Ahhh! Now I hear it! So that’s like air guitar? Or Air on a G String”? Or “In the Air Tonight”? Or “Solid Air”?. :) ;)

I don’t think we speak thr same language. I can’t intuit any conceivable meaning of “air” that is to do with identifiying or following any instrument in a string quartet. I suggest you put your speakers and you in a 1.8m - 2m equilateral triangle as far away from walls as possible, point them in...

So at which of these gigs did you ever hear “air”.? What does “air” sound like?

What on earth does that mean? These are hifi nonsense terms. Have you ever sat within ten metres of a Steinway, or a string quartet, or an orchestra, or a rock band, or a jazz group and heard “air” or “sound staging”?. Real music, real musicians, sound solid, real, enormous, they make your soul...