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New Product Launch – Hi-Fi Passive Series – SCM7 & SCM11

SH25-76 Tweeter

Sharing technology with the renowned ATC soft domed mid-range drive unit, the new tweeter employs a unique dual suspension system suppressing rocking modes even at high power output levels. The ATC configuration of a short edge-wound voice coil in a long, narrow magnetic gap ensures exceptionally low distortion throughout its operating band and removes the need for ferrofluids, which can dry out over time, compromising performance.

A complex, shaped, soft-domed diaphragm extends high frequency range and offers a smooth off-axis response. The tweeter’s 15,000 gauss (1.5 tesla) neodymium magnet has a black heat-treated top plate, which dissipates heat away from the voice coil to maintain high power handling and low power compression. A precision-machined 5.5mm rigid alloy waveguide provides optimum dispersion, a flat on-axis frequency response and resonance-free operation.

New Cabinets and Systems

Establishing what is to be a new style for ATC’s most competitively priced range of loudspeakers, the new SCM7 and SCM11 benefit acoustically and aesthetically from a curved cabinet construction. Braced and laminated for high rigidity and damping, the curved enclosures in real cherry or black ash veneer also impart a strong impression of design quality.  Improved crossovers featuring metallised polypropylene capacitors, large air cored inductors and ceramic wire-round resistors offer superior power handling and clarity. Each new model exhibits an impedance curve free from low values, presenting an easy load for amplifiers of 75 to 300 watts. The SCM7 and SCM11 are designed for optimum performance without the grille – although a full-length perforated metal grille, finished in anthracite grey to match the drive unit face plates, is supplied. According to tradition, each model number represents internal cabinet volume in litres.

Third Generation SCM7

ATC’s SH25-76 soft dome tweeter is joined by the company’s highly linear 125mm mid/bass driver. It features a 45mm soft dome – exceptional for its horizontal dispersion of mid-band frequencies – and a huge 3.5kg high-energy magnet system, which includes a 45mm flat wire voice coil, meticulously milled and formed by ATC. The magnet system and a carefully weighted doped fabric cone assembly contribute to the SCM7’s wide bandwidth, impressive dynamic range and convincing bass output – all from a tiny seven litre cabinet.  Click here to jump to the SCM7’s product page.

Second Generation SCM11

The new SCM11 features ATC’s SH25-76 with an ATC CLD 150mm mid-bass driver incorporating a 45mm soft dome. Constrained Layer Damping is a driver cone technology exclusive to ATC and represents a step-change in driver-to-system performance. Advantages include reduced harmonic distortion between 300Hz and 3 kHz, an extended frequency response that eases constraints on the crossover filter slope, and improved off-axis response.  Click here to jump to the SCM11’s product page.

Manufactured in-house, the new SCM7 and SCM11 offer the ownership of a hand-built ruggedly engineered speaker, world famous for musical accuracy and high power output.  Like all ATC products, the new models are backed by a six-year warranty.

Please contact your local dealer or distributor for pricing.

Products available from mid – September.

ATC Hire Lone Mountain Audio for U.S. Consumer Market Distribution

ATC (Acoustic Transducer Company) of Britain has appointed Lone Mountain Audio as its new U.S. distributor for the consumer Hi-Fi products, along with the formation of its new company, Lone Mountain Audio based in Las Vegas, NV.

ATC is a manufacturer of handcrafted loudspeakers formed in 1974 that can be found in prominent recording and film studios worldwide.

ATC’s home audio loudspeakers are handcrafted, hand varnished and designed with ATC’s own drivers, crossovers, amplifiers and preamplifiers.

Janis and Brad Lunde, owners of Lone Mountain Audio, are not newcomers at ATC Loudspeakers. They have been representing ATC Professional products in the U.S. for thirteen years as the TransAudio Group, a Pro Audio Sales business established in 2000. The formation of Lone Mountain Audio is simple, to keep the Pro and Consumer sales and marketing businesses separated with different people and focus, and a user experience tailored to each channels market.

Lone Mountain Audio’s president Brad Lunde states, “I am thrilled to now represent ATC in the Consumer Hi-Fi Channel where I can demonstrate to both audiophiles and music lover enthusiasts with the idea of bringing “the Studio Experience” to the home. They’ll be blown away as to what they’ve been missing – in the recordings that is.”

ATC’s founder and owner, Billy Woodman said: “Brad Lunde is ATC’s established and very successful U.S. distributor of professional products and I am now pleased to announce that Brad and Lone Mountain Audio will also distribute ATC’s high-fidelity loudspeakers and electronics to all those music enthusiasts in the US who love music and quality, high-resolution audio.

“At Lone Mountain Audio we are convinced that once you hear music reproduction done right, you’ll understand what Lenny Kravitz, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Diana Krall, Jack White, Blackbird Studios, Doug Sax Mastering, Alan Myerson, Shawn Murphy and so many more recording artists have known about ATC for a long time. What’s most amazing is that they tell us how much ATC helps them hear what is really going on. That nothing they’ve tried works like ATC at stripping away the veil to reveal the details, the truth.”

Visit Lone Mountain Audio at the upcoming fall Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver to hear the ATC studio experience firsthand.

Lone Mountain Audio Distribution

7340 Smoke Ranch Road, Suite A

Las Vegas, NV 89128

(Visits by appointment only).

Tel: +702 307 2727

Fax: +702 365 5145

www.lonemountainaudio.com

Mark Ronson revels in revealing ATC SCM25A PRO studio setup

“They give a really great image of everything that’s going on, whether I’m tracking a live band or working on something with a massive 808 kick drum.”
– Mark Ronson (record producer, DJ, musician)

LONDON, UK: specialist British loudspeaker drive unit and complete sound reproduction system manufacturer ATC is pleased to announce that genre-hopping, Grammy Award-winning record producer, DJ, and musician Mark Ronson has installed a pair of SCM25A PRO three-way compact active loudspeakers in his new Munro Acoustics and Steve Durr designed studio space at London’s Tileyard Studios complex…

“I was looking for a place around here,” he says, having first established himself as a diverse DJ on the New York club scene in 1993, before moving into record production in 2001 with American singer Nikka Costa’s first US album release, Everybody Got Their Something. A string of high-profile pop production and performance credits quickly followed for the likes of Lily Allen, Robbie Williams, Nas, Adele, Bruno Mars, and, most notably, Amy Winehouse, with whom Ronson bagged no fewer than three Grammys in 2008 — Producer Of The Year, Record Of The Year, and Best Pop Vocal Album.  Ronson soon stormed the charts in his own right with his second solo album, Version, hitting the number 2 spot in the UK and earning him a BRIT Award for Best Male Solo Artist in 2008. Ronson repeated the feat in 2010, reaching number 2 with a third studio album, Record Collection, credited to Mark Ronson & The Business Intl.

“I haven’t had my own studio since I left New York about four years ago,” continues Ronson. “I looked at some other prebuilt studios being sold, but then it came up that all these rooms were being built at Tileyard.”

With over 50 permanent recording studios to its notable name, Tileyard Studios, situated in London’s Kings Cross Central, bills itself as being the newest and most creative hub in Europe. Little wonder, then, that the super-successful Ronson was happy to put down his recording roots there: “Building my own place from scratch meant that I could incorporate some of my favourite things from all the studios that I’ve loved working at during the last four years, like the analogue aspect of Daptone in Brooklyn, where we recorded the Amy stuff, as well as the MIDI and computer aspect.”

Inspired by a visit to a new Nashville studio built for The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, Ronson recruited the studio designer responsible, Steve Durr, to collaborate with London-based consultant Chris Walls of Munro Acoustics to build something similar at Tileyard: “It just had a great vibe — kind of like one of those old RCA studios in Nashville, so my live room is, likewise, really well designed, with a no-frills vibe — like walking into any old studio from the ’60s.”

While Ronson may well have sought inspiration from the past for his live room, selecting suitable monitoring for his control room was a different proposition entirely with ATC’s SCM25A PRO three way compact active loudspeakers quickly catching his ear: “I was walking around other studios with Chris Walls from Munro so he could get a sense of what I liked.  We went to British Grove, and I just couldn’t believe how amazing they sounded — so much punch, bite, and growl, then this really pristine top end. It was kind of a revelation, and I just thought, ‘There’s no way I’m going to get any other speakers other than those when I get into my space.’ I was sold on first listen.  I then had another chance to use the speakers when,  Audio Power Tools, Brooklyn let me borrow a pair to test them out when I was at Avatar in New York, tracking some stuff for Paul McCartney’s new album.”

With Ronson duly sold on what he had heard, London-based Funky Junk, Europe’s largest stockists of new and used professional audio equipment, made the sale. Says Ronson, “They were very cool and easy to work with.”

Now that the super-sounding SCM25A PROs are happily nestling on the meter bridge of Ronson’s beloved vintage MCI 500 Series console at his super-sounding studio space at Tileyard, the results clearly speak volumes, as is borne out by their super-satisfied owner’s super-supportive closing comments: “When I was starting out, I used whatever monitors I could afford, then I worked my way up to things like Genelecs and KRKs — all really nice, but they’ve got nothing on the ATCs, as far as I’m concerned. For the most part, I spend most of my time on the ATCs now. They give a great image of everything that’s going on, whether I’m tracking a live band or working on something with a massive 808 kick drum.”

Audio Power Tools, Brooklyn, USA

Funky Junk, London, England