Members Brittanylips Posted November 23, 2005 Members Share Posted November 23, 2005 Check out these new monitors from ATC on HC IMHO, Billy Woodman / ATC builds the world's most accurate speakers. Billy Woodman is the genius behind the designs and obsesses over every detail, constantly improving his speakers and pushing the envelope. I don't see them winning any beauty contest anytime soon, but damn, these things are good. Painfully accurate. Minimal distortion. I think that ATCs are more widely used in England/Europe than the US, but you do see them in the US from time to time (e.g. Sony mastering, Warner Bros Burbank, Lenny Kravitz, etc). -Peace, Love, and Brittanylips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alndln2 Posted November 23, 2005 Members Share Posted November 23, 2005 HC Units are priced at $16,000/pair I think that price might slightly tip the balance for my home project studio funds and have me careening off in another direction price-wise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted November 23, 2005 Members Share Posted November 23, 2005 Originally posted by Alndln2 I think that price might slightly tip the balance for my home project studio funds and have me careening off in another direction price-wise. $16,000 per pair? Think how many Tapco monitors you could buy!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted November 23, 2005 Members Share Posted November 23, 2005 I know frequency response curves don't tell the whole story... but I'm thinking, for my 16 grand, that I'd like to hear, you know, some bass... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 The best sounding, non-custom designed / built (IOW, commercially available) mains I have ever heard in my life, bar none: ADAM S6A Mk II's Please be sitting down when you inquire about the price (IIRC, they're about twice as expensive as those ATC's, which BTW, I have NOT heard yet), but man they sound GREAT! http://www.adam-audio.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted November 23, 2005 Members Share Posted November 23, 2005 And you know, with only four more shopping weeks until my birthday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Sorry Ken, I'd really like to hook you up, but I would wind up in divorce court if I bought you a pair of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted November 23, 2005 Members Share Posted November 23, 2005 Seeing as she's totally cool and y'all should be together, I'll just stick that JPG on my computer desktop instead and pretend like I'm mixing through a pair of 'em!!! Seriously, I can't complain about nuttin' at all. I've got a pair of the small ADAMs and am getting a sound that brings a smile to my face. In other words, I am damn lucky and never take it for granted!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members daklander Posted November 23, 2005 Members Share Posted November 23, 2005 Originally posted by UstadKhanAli I'll just stick that JPG on my computer desktop instead and pretend like I'm mixing through a pair of 'em!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted November 23, 2005 Members Share Posted November 23, 2005 Originally posted by Phil O'Keefe The best sounding, non-custom designed / built (IOW, commercially available) mains I have ever heard in my life, bar none: ADAM S6A Mk II's Please be sitting down when you inquire about the price (IIRC, they're about twice as expensive as those ATC's, which BTW, I have NOT heard yet), but man they sound GREAT! http://www.adam-audio.com Yeah... but they look like something you'd find hooked up to the 8 track player in a Mexican taxi in the 1970s... you know, with the 'color organ' built in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ViLo Posted November 24, 2005 Members Share Posted November 24, 2005 Originally posted by blue2blue Yeah... but they look like something you'd find hooked up to the 8 track player in a Mexican taxi in the 1970s... you know, with the 'color organ' built in? Why a Mexican Taxi?? Are you being racist here? UH??............................. Just kidding bro!! I was playing Jesse Jackson!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brittanylips Posted November 24, 2005 Author Members Share Posted November 24, 2005 Originally posted by Phil O'Keefe The best sounding, non-custom designed / built (IOW, commercially available) mains I have ever heard in my life, bar none: ADAM S6A Mk II's Please be sitting down when you inquire about the price (IIRC, they're about twice as expensive as those ATC's, which BTW, I have NOT heard yet), but man they sound GREAT! ATC's higher-end monitors, e.g. the larger, uglier 300ASLs, are $42,000, and you can spend even more than that putting together an entire ATC system! I haven't done a side-by-side comparison between ATC and ADAM (I use ATCs for my mains, and have done some A/B with other brands), but i wouldn't be surprised if the upshot was that at the high end, the Adams sounded better, the ATCs were more transparent, more ruthlessly stethescopic. -Peace, Love, and Brittanylips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted November 24, 2005 Members Share Posted November 24, 2005 Originally posted by ViLo Why a Mexican Taxi?? Are you being racist here? UH??............................. ... Just kidding bro!! I was playing Jesse Jackson!! Vicente, I'll admit it's been a few years since I've been in a taxi in Mexico -- but I'll never forget the elaborate 8 track rig in the front of a Tres Estrellas bus I took from Tijuana to Calexico... the road that runs along the northern border there is a winding, two lane affair, complete with lurching farm trucks and precipitous drops into canyons and valleys far below. Right under his equally elaborate shrine to the Virgin (complete with eternally smoking incense) was a big ol home 8 track stereo unit -- complete with randomly glowing red, green and blue color organ lights -- blasting nortenas and banda music. As we careened up and down the winding mountain road, I was in a perfect position to see the driver guiding the bus full of travellers (and caged chickens) with his knee as he sipped coffee and flipped through his 8 track tapes... Ah, Mexico. I love that place... but it can be a wee bit scary sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ViLo Posted November 25, 2005 Members Share Posted November 25, 2005 Originally posted by blue2blue Vicente, I'll admit it's been a few years since I've been in a taxi in Mexico -- but I'll never forget the elaborate 8 track rig in the front of a Tres Estrellas bus I took from Tijuana to Calexico... the road that runs along the northern border there is a winding, two lane affair, complete with lurching farm trucks and precipitous drops into canyons and valleys far below. Right under his equally elaborate shrine to the Virgin (complete with eternally smoking incense) was a big ol home 8 track stereo unit -- complete with randomly glowing red, green and blue color organ lights -- blasting nortenas and banda music. As we careened up and down the winding mountain road, I was in a perfect position to see the driver guiding the bus full of travellers (and caged chickens) with his knee as he sipped coffee and flipped through his 8 track tapes... Ah, Mexico. I love that place... but it can be a wee bit scary sometimes. They have CD and mp3 players now , and no chickens allowed ;) Yeah! My Mexico I wish a can go back and stay..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alndln2 Posted November 25, 2005 Members Share Posted November 25, 2005 Hey,I saw these things blasting out of a back of a van once,sounded pretty distorted though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted November 25, 2005 Members Share Posted November 25, 2005 Yah... that's what happens when your car-12VDC to 120VAC converter can't supply enough clean juice... power rails, yadda yadda... That's why the really serious people who install those ADAMs in their vans also put in a separate gas-powered electrical generator (remember to vent the exhaust outside the van, DIY'ers)... It's all about the power supply... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 I want a set of 6A's for my Miata... problem is, a pair of those are BIGGER than the entire car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted November 25, 2005 Members Share Posted November 25, 2005 You hire a couple of flatbed trucks to drive on either side of you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BillRoberts Posted November 26, 2005 Members Share Posted November 26, 2005 I would not mind a pair of those stands..for my monitors. They look like what I have been wanting. ....Getting tired of the concrete columns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members offramp Posted November 26, 2005 Members Share Posted November 26, 2005 Originally posted by Brittanylips ... and obsesses over every detail, constantly improving his speakers and pushing the envelope. Which begs the question about how useful that is, where the point of diminishing returns is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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