World Cup of Audio

UK:

1pr. ATC Anniversary 150's Front
2pr. ATC Anniversary 50's Rear & side
1ea. ATC Anniversary 150 Center
4ea ATC Concept 6 Subwoofers
1ea XTA Digital Crossover (for sub delay)
4ea XTA Digital EQ's for subs.
1ea Meridian 861 v.4
1ea Meridian 800

Strengths: Trifield Surround Sound, Dynamic Range, Near perfect synergy over its full Bandwidth, faithful to the source and recorded venue, Linearity, midrange Speed, dynamics and clarity, room correction and the ability to be tuned to different recordings and listeners for best results.

Weaknesses: Predisposition against surround by audiophiles, will not do well in the vacuum of the audiophile belief system. Otherwise the weaknesses are difficult to define, but it has to play a recording, the recordings will be the weakness.

Odds; In a real life head to head contest this system will crush, quite unceremoniously almost all the two channel entries. In the reality of this contest very low odds otherwise, cause this is a battle of opinion and limited experiences.

My experience with this system is it is a converter and dispeller of the belief system that 2 channel is the superior format. Audiophiles come in thinking one way and squirt out the other relieved of the burden of two channel.

Should be a fun thread.

Mr. Edwards, your tube and audiophile aprehensions aside, a very impressive system indeed!

D_Edwards,

You have no fancy cable or tweaks....shame on you. Nothing has a chance of winning a vote without glowing tubes, thick cables supported by power line isolators, spikes for speakers, pads for components, a turntable with a platter sized to grind wheat and, I forgot to mention, the all important clock tweak! Besides, speakers that look like boxes....come on....surely you can do better....the MBL 101E's look like something from a NASA mission far, far better.

Germany 1 UK Nil. IMHO

Keep it going, this should be a fun thread!

Is it legal in the UK to make fancy cables? Anyone?

Its hard to be ex-cia, nsa and be an English subject is it not? :)

I realize there's no sizzle on my steak, I guess I like being the sleeper underdog. :)

My boys from IXOS just called and they are going to sponsor my system...So I'd like to thank Ixos for stepping up with the exotic freebies.

Only the listener gets tweaked with this system :)

D_Edwards, how about ATC's system 70?

"A quarter century of ATC research reaches a climax".
That's ATC's quote, not mine.

My vote would be Japan or France. I can't name a specific system but Japanese and French (PHY?) seems to have the best single driver speaker technology out there. Basically full range from a virtual point source.