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"ATC: Always The Champion. I will not record without them. The best studio monitors. Period." "I've spent years trying all sorts of gear in what will probably be a never-ending quest to improve the quality of my work. After living with these ATC SCM150Pro monitors, I've stopped looking for better speakers." "Speakers are the window to my musical world. I require speakers that are not only thrilling to listen to, but that also relate accurately to the world outside of my studio. I have finally found a pair of speakers that are not only fun and exciting to record and mix through, but that also guarantee that what I am hearing in the studio will translate to the real world. I have finally found them: my ATC 25's. I'm not going anywhere without them." "You were right... it's a year and a half later, and i cant imagine living without these speakers. one of the best choices of my career. my work has never been so consistent, my clients never so happy. Thanks," "The traditional way of doing things was to mix, then take a reference home or listen in the car. I don't really need to do that anymore, because I find I'm not second-guessing the process as much, which helps me move faster." "I produced Sky Farm, mixed three films and a number of commercials all on the ATCs and everything has translated beautifully. So my confidence level is extremely high! With the 100s I find the imaging is breathtaking. The soundfield is so defined and exactly the way it is on the sound stage. I also find the 'sweet spot' is wide both vertically and horizontally making it great for my clients and artists to also enjoy the sound equally over a fairly wide area. These speakers somehow maintain the same relationship between low, mid and high frequencies at all volumes better than any speaker I've worked on. If I was mixing a record, the vocal sound, characteristic and position in the mix stays exactly the same - dead on from quiet to earthshaking room volumes." |
ATC Monitors
The Company Short Story
Over the years there seems to be two ways great speakers are born. Way number one is a happy accident of experimentation: parts that "just
Today ATC stands alone, hand building one speaker at a time for one person, while the rest of the industry focuses on building thousands of units to supply mega-stores. ATC is still owned by Billy, who comes to work everyday to keep inventing new drivers, new speakers, new ideas. Billy is continuing the legacy, the way he learned, bringing in a young engineering staff to learn by apprenticeship. Long nights in the lab and frustration when a new product doesn't come easily are all part of it when you are building something from the ground up.work" and not even the builder knows why or how. Way number two is not so easy: an engineer with a new idea who understands the physics of transducers and the acoustics of sound, trying to make his new idea real with metal, wood, wire, and plastic. ATC is very much a story of the second way, about one man named Billy Woodman, who spent his young working life as an engineer working side by side with the greatest speaker engineers of his day. Billy would go on to found ATC, Acoustic Transducer Company, in England to try and keep the ideas and the inventions coming when the rest of the industry decided it wanted to cut costs instead.
Working side by side with Billy, the young engineers are carrying the torch onward, continuing the mission to help people do better work with better loudspeakers. So it is not without a sence of quiet satisfaction in a job well done to witness a customer "discover" ATC with the comment "I hear things on these ATCs I have never heard before!"
With all these apparent positives, why hasn't everyone heard of ATC? Truth is our customers won't tell you about ATC because their ATCs help win work away from you! With ATC you hear every change, every detail. You can hear things lost on other speakers,. You find the flaws and can fix them before the client hears them. Your mixes sound better with less mix time. Your roughs are closer to finals and your finals translate to ALL speaker systems with less mastering. ATC helps you do better work so you will earn more work. And once you own ATC, you won't tell anyone about us either! So get on with it, try them out and see for yourself. Call TransAudio, ATC's U.S. office, to discuss which ATC's might work for you and how you can hear them. We look forward to hearing from you.
What Makes ATC Different?
If you would like to know more about ATC's unique performance, what makes ATC different from other speaker companies, click HERE. I wrote this to be easy to read and not so technical.
The Science Behind it All
If you would like to know about the in-depth science behind an ATC speaker, then click HERE for Billy's company profile. Fire up the coffee pot and get ready for some intellectual reading!
ATC Speaker Line
ATC makes passives and actives in nearfield, midfield, and farfield formats. We custom make each one so custom building one to fit your space requirements is often easily done. Custom finishes are also available if esthetics are important to you or you need something for a specific space. Check out the submenu on the left side of this page of the full product line.
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