My ATC 20s have been banned

lads, My ATC 20s have been banned... been told outright I'm not allowed them in the living room by 'er indoors - which, if I'm honest, is understandable; they are butt-ugly (they are the old ones).

So what else is there in a similar ball park worth looking/listening at/to?

The initial brief was for active speakers, but this has now been extended to include small footprint drivers, so towers/floorstanders seem to be order of the day.

All help extremely greatfully recieved

 

I believe WM is our resident expert on speakers with a feminine side.

I'd look at Proac Response 1sc or the recently reintroduced Studio 100's but that's just me, and I'm a bloke.

 

:newbie:
i hope you are angling for a BIG quid pro quo on this one.
why not try some atc active 70's or if they are out of the question as i suspect they will be maybe some of those b&o dalek things... or perhaps some meridian actives...
cheers


julian

 

Hey, we have a deal, I can spend the cash, so long as she thinks it looks nice... a pretty fair deal IMO

I can't believe that all good looking transducers are cr.p.. I could of course always rework the ATC enclosures out of mahogany, but I don;t really like to

 

i was actually serious about the last two - and the metal atc's look the business to imho - not sure i'd like how they sound though personally.
what about some pmc / bryston jobbies or the atc 35? can that be active?
the problem is that 'good looking' is even more subjective than 'good sounding' get a bunch of the latest hi-fi mags and have a look through for something that you can both live with. how about some sonus flabbers?
cheers


julian

 

Well, I have been looking at the PMCs, they would be fine, the GB1s were the ones that I think I could get away with. I was planing on using the Bryston Preamp/dac BP25da, along with either Bryston amps, or having ATC add the monoblocks to the 20s, so the PMC/Bryston combi is a logical progression.

What I'm hoping to achieve by this thread is just to shortlist the currently extremely long list

The 35s are only available as passive units, although there is no reason why one could put the Bryston power packs on them

 

Meadowlarks.... My mum likes them, so you might be in with a chance!

 

The Meadowlarks are hideous.

Paul

 

LMAO, yes, indeed, they are... handy if one of the walls of the house is caving in however

 

Really? I think they look rather nice! BTW, do they come with grilles?

Michael.

 

Much like bricks then Paul, only these do actually sound rather good (unlike Briks) with or without 3 amps and 15 levels of angle iron.
Still as they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder

 

If they spent as much money on the drive units and crossovers as they do on the decidedly camp cabinetry, they might even sound decent

I'll pass on the bikinis and stingers and stick with large magets and sophisticated voice coils thanks.

 

Merlin, I appreicate the vote of confidence sir, a true gent always, camp cabinets eh?, thats a new one, have you been raiding Merlin's magic book of put downs, general sarky retorts & horned one abuse, I rate it 7/10 for originality. I'm genuinely impressed, so havea quick flick throught your spellbook for references to briks

 

The new Rega floorstanders (there's 3 or so in the range, different sizes) sound pretty good to me, and look domestically acceptable. But Foidwangle's 3rd Law of Speakery does generally hold true: good-looking speaker = pants.

-- Ian

 

In which case Ian, atc should sound good? so that theroy doesn't hold water

 

Oooo, now that's a fiesty remark

Be very interested to know in which areas you think the ATCs are lacking... personally I haven;t heard much that can beat them in a siilar price range..

Oh, and saying if something is blue it's good, doesn;t mean if it's not blue, it's sh.t

 

Can of worms time, I've owned the 50's which left me stone cold, very accurate studio monitors for sure (if lacking a little lower down the registars) for music I'm afraid they don't cut for me, I like a little more meat & potatoes than Calistar Flockheart.
I can even tell you about a gent who has 5 atc 150's, who needed the subs to help the bottom end, and still reckons they have no thwack, seriously true!!!!

 

Hey, no issues there with me, I am a fan of their midrange, I think it's extremely true to form.... but I could pick plenty of holes... however, I'm an HLCD man and I like midbass that can break a rib - not truly accurate, but much more fun

 

Bit of a contridition there Matt, we've been told by most ATC owners they have the most accurate mids in the Biz bar none, I wouldn't say thwack was the forte', more an 'as it is reproduction'
Still try some totems or the PMC's these will give you some thing to chew over

 

Sorry, to clarify, I think the ATC mid is very nice, but the low mid / midbass (say 80-200hz), is too smooth for my liking. It's certainly linear, but I prefer something a little more unrefined