ATC SCM40 Overview | Soundstage

ATC SCM40 floorstanding loudspeakers are the flagship passive speakers in the SCM range, delivering a performance of speakers ‘three or four times the price’ according to Hi-Fi Choice magazine.

ATC SCM40 sits above the award winning SCM7, SCM11 and SCM19 bookshelf models and offers an even more impressive sound with the greater bass extension you’d expect from a floorstanding design.

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[connorduke]

ATC, manufacturer of the world's greatest mid-range driver since 1976!

[stephengarratt]

I have had my ATC SCM40 passives for over two years. Mine are Tri-amped with a pair of Audiolab 8300MBs 250 watts for the Bass and four Audiolab 8000Ms 125 watts for the Mid Range and Tweeters. The sound is (for me) perfect and many fellow audiophiles are gob smacked by what they are hearing!
I am very lucky that they suit my listening room
dimensions and seating perfectly.

[CrescendoKeysChannel]

Can you deacribe tbe sound of the atcs compared to tge bowers wilkins 805s in the back? I have the B&Ws and i'm veey interested in tve ATCs

[sumitgenzyme]

This is in my list. What about the bass??

[toho]

Imagine these are ribbon tweeters, like the proac. Will the high be better?

[shiroitake]

Since the grills seem fairly stiff (I haven't received mine yet) it may be easy to get a cloth to wrap around it.

[konstantinoskanellopoulos]

If not tri wiring does it matter where you connect the cable to the speaker? I see that you connect black to the top and red to the bottom at 0.14.

[rickg]

One downside to the actives is that if ever a problem with the amps your screwed. Need to ship back or repair. Non active is simpler and prob last forever.

[uhugvjkbkjh]

What distance from wall do you normally recommend?

[Romulus]

Rest of the system seems to be components from Naim Audio, what are they exactly?

[fizywig]

I have these speakers. A few problems with them
1. They are an afterthought by atc, the real speaker is the atc scm actives which look identical but have active crossovers and a power amp, 30 watts into tweeter, 150 watts and 60 watts into midrange and bass drivers.
2 they are difficult to drive and so you need very powerful and expensive power amp.
3. They only sound good loud.
4. They are very revealing of your source distortion.
5. Following on from 4. If for example you have even an expensive Music 
Ustreamer upstream as a source, all the distortion will show up in sound.
6. Midrange on these are its strength but when the singer goes up in voice to high frequency thus activating tweeter, there is distortion in transient which is jarring on ear, this problem probably due to the fact the passive crossover is not as well designed, since these speakers require active crossover

[zorankalina]

Ah...have those...among the others..
Yes...they sound great
should live in the house...if you wish to have best from them
If you live..in apartmant...beter finde something ellse...
...cos, you should push them loud...to loud for apartmant...
Actualy, ...your neighboures..have ears too
And you will not be able to push them loud enough....to heare all ..what they can delivere
Still...I like them so much

[EllsworthBuck]

I have these speakers and absolutely love them. If there is a negative. They are power hogs. I wouldn't recommend pairing them with anything less they 200 watts per channel into 8 ohms. Other than that. They are magical to my ears.

[charliewilson]

What's the price of a pair of those speakers.

[max]

Neanche con il famoso midrange sono riuscite a battere i medi delle tannoy turnberry gr .sovravalutate😢