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Ok... so in February I bought some ATC active monitors. Yes, yes, I saw Amir’s review of the SCM19s. You can stop sniggering.
Mine are hybrids with the cabinet and drivers of the SCM20ASL mk 1 and the amp packs of the T16. They were club DJ monitor speakers, so they’re well used, and I got them for a very very good price (so the damning ASR review didn’t hurt too much). They also added enough bass extension, scale and detail over my previous Proac/Croft (yes, yes, valves, I know, I wish I’d discovered ASR sooner...) combination for me to sell both.
I had intended to send them to ATC to have the bass drivers re-coned and the amp packs upgraded to full 20ASL spec. But then I read the ASR review and wondered if it was worth it. My first reaction was that I should just cut my losses, sell the ATCs for what I could get for them and buy some Genelecs instead.
But then I wondered if I could use the ATCs as the basis of a great DIY project... with a digital crossover, class D amps and new bass drivers - possibly the Purifi ones. These ATCs have a sealed, curved, cast aluminium enclosure and come with decent Seas tweeters - both plus points. So if I had new front baffles made to take the Purifi drivers, used two Hypex NC400 amps a side fed by my RME ADI-2 Pro FS (I can buy some good products...) in multichannel mode, and then used software on my Mac to perform crossover and DSP, could I create a good speaker?
Or am I being arrogant to think that my Frankenstein speakers could come even close to established designs like Genelec?
Mine are hybrids with the cabinet and drivers of the SCM20ASL mk 1 and the amp packs of the T16. They were club DJ monitor speakers, so they’re well used, and I got them for a very very good price (so the damning ASR review didn’t hurt too much). They also added enough bass extension, scale and detail over my previous Proac/Croft (yes, yes, valves, I know, I wish I’d discovered ASR sooner...) combination for me to sell both.
I had intended to send them to ATC to have the bass drivers re-coned and the amp packs upgraded to full 20ASL spec. But then I read the ASR review and wondered if it was worth it. My first reaction was that I should just cut my losses, sell the ATCs for what I could get for them and buy some Genelecs instead.
But then I wondered if I could use the ATCs as the basis of a great DIY project... with a digital crossover, class D amps and new bass drivers - possibly the Purifi ones. These ATCs have a sealed, curved, cast aluminium enclosure and come with decent Seas tweeters - both plus points. So if I had new front baffles made to take the Purifi drivers, used two Hypex NC400 amps a side fed by my RME ADI-2 Pro FS (I can buy some good products...) in multichannel mode, and then used software on my Mac to perform crossover and DSP, could I create a good speaker?
Or am I being arrogant to think that my Frankenstein speakers could come even close to established designs like Genelec?