Active speaker comparison

[Lone Mountain Audio]

On 11/5/2020 at 5:17 AM, mevdinc said:

 

On 11/5/2020 at 2:50 AM, Alpha Audio said:

 

We explicitly asked the distributer for ATC how to place the speakers. They asked us to get close to the wall to get rid of boundart effect. So we did... 

 

There must be something lost here in translation.  As an ATC distributor, we are mostly in pro but also home, I would never say "get them close to the wall" unless i wanted you to pick something else.  "Close to the wall" would  increase boundary reflections, playing havoc with the image and mid/HF tone.  Maybe they said rear boundary?  Which wall did they suggest? 

 

Getting speakers AWAY from boundaries is normally the best plan in almost all cases.   Want to hear a good demo?  Go into a large room with boundaries far away.   Want to hear a bad demo?  Get speakers near boundaries, especially on the sides.  

 

Too bad, I would have suggested calling ATC and asking the engineers there about what is best.  After all, the guys at the factory are acoustics guys, with a lot of experience with their speakers in lots of environments.

 

Brad

[Lone Mountain Audio]

On 11/3/2020 at 12:02 AM, Alpha Audio said:

We wanted to compare apples to apples... the ATC doesn't have a digital input. 

Plus digital in is listening to another DAC permanently overlayed on the sound of the speaker.  As every DAC has a sound of its own and grows obsolete with nearly every [annual or semi annual] chip development cycle, this limits a speakers's life [we can have a 10-20 year life.  ATC is of the mind the DAC is better left to owner to choose to keep his speakers current across time.  One of the foundations of ATC Engineering is the speakers must stay current (be upgradeable) over time if at all possible.  

 

Brad