This certainly applies to my SCM40s, but would I believe apply equally to other ATC passive speakers - SCM11s and 19s.
ATC make fantastic speakers, which though tend to split opinion on this forum, with many describing them as a touch too dry and unforgiving.
I've owned my SCM40s for just over a year and while sure of their quality and potential found myself too trying to adjust for an overall dryness in my system. I now know that it's not fair to blame the speakers, except in that they are bloody fussy about what they are partnered with. They will show you exactly what's going on with the rest of your system. So are best not matched with budget equipment or anything overly bright.
Over the year the sound, through tweaks and changes, has got better and better and the final piece clicked in to place recently. The final piece did not just improve the sound it completely transformed it to the extent that I was shocked.
And it was all down to a change of speaker cable. I had been using very good Atlas cables - the Hyper 2 and Hyper 3
ATC make fantastic speakers, which though tend to split opinion on this forum, with many describing them as a touch too dry and unforgiving.
I've owned my SCM40s for just over a year and while sure of their quality and potential found myself too trying to adjust for an overall dryness in my system. I now know that it's not fair to blame the speakers, except in that they are bloody fussy about what they are partnered with. They will show you exactly what's going on with the rest of your system. So are best not matched with budget equipment or anything overly bright.
Over the year the sound, through tweaks and changes, has got better and better and the final piece clicked in to place recently. The final piece did not just improve the sound it completely transformed it to the extent that I was shocked.
And it was all down to a change of speaker cable. I had been using very good Atlas cables - the Hyper 2 and Hyper 3