Danish loudspeakers: Dynaudio & System Audio

Fair enough...I look forward to your postings in the months and years ahead.

I have heard and owned many of the higher dynaudio models. Sure their tweeters are nice. When I listened to ATC though it was an ear opener. It remains one of the most natural sounding conventional speaker. You do not feel like dissecting bass and treble when atc is playing. It plays like one driver which is a huge achievement. It is way more dynamic than even the dynaudio confidence series speakers. All this talk about tweeter and bass quality is irrelevant until you hear it. Though it is sealed box it has terrific and authentic low frequency presentation. Not the typical one note boom. And yes PMC though seems to be in the similar game, it actually is not. It is a lot more colored than the ATC. By the way I have moved on now to horn speakers else ATC remains my favourite.

@Pani: hmm, I'm a bit skeptical about the dynamic you mentioned, apart from speakers material, amp & source also play a role in distortion and dynamic measurement, I'm not sure the statement that ATC speakers is more dynamic than Dynaudio Confidence series, to me they should be only reach the same level if both put their efforts & technology right on. And when you mention about natural sound, I'm thinking that's in a way "coloured" sound, just a matter of taste, another concern I'm not considering ATC is the price point is way out of my budget, especially the ATC SCM19v2

If I were you Win I would do a shootout of the 160 against the Monitor Audio Gold 100. They are tested by a person of the HVT. He said: this speaker is without competition.

A shootout will give you the answer......

Wim1983, are you saying all good speakers have same dynamic expression provided the amplification is equally good ? I am sorry that's not even close to my experience. Effortless dynamics and scale is one of the toughest act to get right. Very few speakers do it. ATC is one of them. And when I said it is very natural sounding, I meant it presents instruments and voices with a very realistic tone and timbre. It is actually one of the least colored speakers around. Just read about it even if you can't audition it. The best studios in the world swear by ATC.

If you are not fixated by tweeter quality alone the SCM 19 v1 is just as terrific. I have not even heard the v2. The good thing about this brand is it doesn't categorize sound by the price of the speaker. Every ATC has what makes an ATC great. A basic SCM 7 sounds remarkably close to an SCM 100 albeit at a smaller scale. They don't make inferior speakers deliberately unlike most other brands. When you hear it you will probably get what I have been trying to convey.