Torbachkristensen
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This website, which I love btw, is a great source of knowledge. But it also has an almost religious focus on directivity and radiation patterns, while anyone in the pro industry and a good room will be substantially more interested in phase response, impulse response, lack of distortion and on axis balance. Producing quality drivers in a sufficiently large cabinet, with huge headroom and precise analog active filter and amp design is not outdated, it is just a different design goal and user in mind. My ATC’s has wiped the floor with Genelec 8351, Ex Machina Pulsar, Meyer Sound Amie, Neumann 310, Burchardt a500, Kali IN-8 and quite a few others. I have tested them all. The Dutch 8C and JBL LSR708p are the only ones that was really up to the challenge and did not disappoint with considerable margin. I am awaiting my PMC 6-2, which I have bought and hope they can prove an adequate 2nd monitor.If said room is not anechoic, the following per Toole applies:
Further to this, why is a great room an excuse for a deliberately crippled speaker? Why not both? Is it because it is difficult to admit that the world has left ATC behind and clinging on to the mystique as a status symbol all its adherents can do now?
What's worse than outright voodoo is the superficial commitment to evidence-based, empirical engineering like Chord, Harbeth and ATC despite the actual products being so far behind.
Feel free to come and listen. It does not sound anything close to what you seem to believe ATC is about.