The passive version offers a good measure of all of these abilities but by comparison the active version enables greater clarity, more controlled bass and delivers particularly powerful dynamics, immediacy and speed with ease. Treble is open and airy without harshness conveying the life, energy and atmosphere especially in live recordings. The mid-range offers great clarity and expression for voice, piano and textured instruments such as strings and woodwind whilst remaining natural and consistent. Naim’s legendary timing is there but they also convey bass timbre, pace, slam and decay like few other speakers in their price range. Bass is some of the best I have ever heard.
ATC SCM40A DRIVER
Sound stage is beautifully laid out reflecting, I am sure, good driver integration and the dispersion of the dome midrange. It this setup SCM40A’s provide a superb experience. The SCM40A’s fully convey its passion for music and also benefit from its ability to render poor recordings more listenable. It’s also a player that generates an involving sound stage drawing you in through timing and painting atmosphere especially well. Let’s give NDX 2 credit here it’s a player that majors on musicality, engagement and entertainment rather than clinical accuracy and detail. I arrived at NDX 2, ATC CA2 pre-amplifier and Melco N1ZH/2 before achieving the ‘right’ balance.
Yes this means partnering carefully but fortunately (as Alastair explained to me) they play nicely with Naim. I would say they reflect your source and the recording with unerring accuracy. Some say they are too revealing, detailed or dry. The midrange seems to change least but over these months, expression, subtlety and balance improve and bass response deepens to result in a rather special speaker.ĪTC speakers wear their monitor heritage proudly.
ATC SCM40A DRIVERS
The first thing you learn owning ATC speakers is patience! Out of the box they are definitely not fully fledged SCM 40 bass drivers need an ‘energetic’ week (best spent at Signals unless you have tolerant neighbours) to break them in and the tweeters several months of frequent use for hardness to fully disappear. As an enthusiastic owner I agree and hence have written this user review of them.
The recent Signals Blog ‘ATC SCM100A SE’ referred to the ATC SCM40A as being “remarkably capable”.
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