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So personally I'm no loyalist to any brand. I'd encourage you to give the big 3 ways a listen at some point, just to see if you like them. That said, the 3 ways bigger than the scm40 are very large indeed. The SCM50s are a hair larger than KH420s, which by no means are small speakers. ATCs are...

In fact it never is. 0VU is calibrated to +4dBu, which is generally about -16dBFS.

I do, actually. They were originally written for the now-defunct Resolution magazine. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?attachments/atc-scm25a-pro-pdf.337285/

This one is particularly odd, because it doesn't match other measurements. See below, the Resolution magazine measurements of axial response. S&R overlaid with Resolution, 0dB line matched and image size scaled. There is a 5+dB mismatch in the LF and 3-4 in the top octave. I highly doubt ATC...

Having used ATCs plenty in the 15 years I've been doing recording, believe me when I say they are well within the top half of speakers that get used in studios. I mean, if my options for full range are ATC, Dynaudio, Focal, PMC, Barefoot, or Quested... I'm choosing ATC literally every single...

I... don't think that's what he was saying.

So, let's talk about this. It's more complex than you'd think! Before the advent of the tape machine, records were made direct to disk. There was no editing or overdubbing possible - everybody had to be playing together, at the same time. Mixers were archaic vacuum tube devices with very few...

FWIW, ATC to my understanding do at the very least pair match; what little measurement there is shows that they do match +/-0.5dB. I don't know if every single speaker is within that close of a tolerance, but we could ask. The actives have trimpots on the crossovers and are certainly matched...

I think if the Fc was dropped to 2.8-3k from 3.5k the directivity problems basically wouldn't be there. the dome (in its integral waveguide) radiates fairly widely to about 3-4k from every bare driver measurement I've seen. They also cross it maybe a bit closer to its only major breakup mode...

In this form factor, the SCM25A MK2s are better. The KH310s are no slouch either and are actually surprisingly similar. PSI A23Ms aren't bad either. Better than these include: - SCM50ASL Pro - KH420 - D&D 8C

You know, I'm using SCM25As today and they do image very well and sound just about accurate to me. These are certainly not the best speakers I've ever heard but I'm sure not going to kick them out of bed for eating crackers. There are so many worse speakers throughout studios than these.

What you're describing as "accuracy of timbre" can be described via the usual measurements (along with some less common ones, e.g. multitone distortion and dynamic behavior). Simply put - if a speaker aces everything (axial frequency response, off axis behavior, distortion both harmonic and...

SPL, power handling, and distortion are all linked. Without fail, the speakers that get the loudest also have the most power handling capability and the lowest distortion at sane levels.

That's JA-speak for "very obviously flawed".

Holy diffraction dip Batman! Also... field coil? What decade is it?

It's generally on average about 1dB, sometimes as high as 3. It depends on the crossover, simpler ones generally have less insertion loss.

I find them considerably better than any Adam I've ever heard, all of which have problems especially in the upper mids to treble.

The 8030 would be my preference.

Effectively, yes. First order crossovers like that are incredibly tweaky on placement and toe-in. They do tend to be fairly flat on-axis (a given with good step response, FWIW), but off axis things get weird.

Step response resembles a speaker with lower order crossovers.