What do you guys think of these monitors?

Yeah we talked about the return policy. He’s in Washington and I’m in Nj so shipping both ways won’t be cheap. Just more curious if anyone here who’s familiar with the specs thinks they will compete with ATC. I guess only one way to really tell, but these sure look appealing! I’m just afraid they’re basically unsellable if I keep them because no one really knows what they are.

Have you asked, what if you do a video review and he picks up half the shipping?

Gonna give them a shot…The ATC’s are really great but a little rolled off and smooth. Great for listening but I always have to check mixes on headphones and other systems. They kind of miss the micro details. Things like reverb tails and eq boosts/cuts are not as obvious as I’d like. I know I could go for something like an Amphion, but I always have to be different. Cant help myself lol.

Will do. My ATC are sealed too. We will see!

they look a bit like sealed proAC's, they are not very sensitive so you're gonna have to throw some power at them, JMO i wouldn't touch a monitor that doesn't show a f response sheet

Only -3dB at 80hz so no!

I'm going to build these for a number of reasons, we are building a new place and i use mainly analog gear with a console, a lot of rolling around in a chair and the control room isn't going to be an acoustic specimen for a good long while. The off axis response of the coax is killer when i'm rolling across the room and adjusting a compressor, if i can hear more accurately its a win. And like i said, if they don't work out in the control room they would be a wide off axis beast in the cutting room to play back for musicians in a session. The woofs on these are subs only, i'm also a big hypex fan and the dsp in this has 15 points of control so i can tailor them as i see fit

you have the non-SL ATCs. They’re great speakers but a bit smoothed out as you describe. The SCM11/12 are bang for buck.

The SL ATCs like the SCM 20 and 50 are exactly the opposite but the tweeter isn’t very “physical” and neither is the bass on the 20s.

Better Dynaudio tweeters are a bit more physical and brighter. The Morel ones Quested used are darker than the ATC non-SL.

Focal Alu-Mag have the metal dome IMD but are damped and dull. The Beryllium is lighter and faster than reality and you can really hear it with cymbals and guitar fizz. The current KRKs are in between.

The current Genelec coax assembly is heavily limited. It doesn’t really sound bad, just has little headroom to prevent it from physically breaking.

If you really want a sudden crack, horn loaded compression drivers will give it to you and provide the best translation to PAs but at the cost of reduced detail and tonal response. The JBL 7 series are great for this as are better Tannoys but the detail isn’t there. The only Tannoys with a lot of air are the ones from 15-20 years ago with the super tweeter. Good speakers. RIP.

I check everything on HD 26 now, the cleaner successor to the classic HD 25 dj and broadcast can. It’s less wooly, less bass heavy, and more forward with reduced treble spike.

Why bother ? Since Madisound is now a Volt dealer get them to order a pair of BM200.8’s a pair of Morel CaT308’s have them build the crossover 35 liter cabinets with a 6cm long 50mm dia port equals -3 @ 45 call them son of Roger Quested much cheaper. This isn’t even me modeling anything this is from the BM200 data sheet. That simple

2k for the pair listed. He’s giving me a better deal.

Honestly if Tony had a CNC & the time I would draw something up about 40 liters for the Volt/ Morel Combo & Have Madisound design build the Crossover. Hell we could do something really fun with the Volt 2 & the new Radial 10 !