We sell the ATC and the Legacy, the ATC SCM 40 are wonderful speakers they do like power and perform beautiufully with 30 watts but won't play loud without the amp going into some compression.
We also sell the Legacy line and they might be perfect for you we compared them to the SCM 40 and felt that the Legacy was a stronger value for $7k over the SCM 40, but it still have some different strengths. Love those ATC 40's as well.
The Legacy Signature Se has a lot of the things you seek:
1: they are 92db efficient so they will play loud on 30 watts
2: they throw a huge soundstage
3: the Heil AMT midrange and tweeter are both silky smooth and have good detail
4; they have deep full bass down to 22hz.
5: they are a managable size big enough to sound room filling with a huge soundstage but not so big at to dominate
6: they are a very reasonable price $7k
7: they come in many different wood finishes
Currently they are our favorite overall performer for under $10k, unfortunatly Legacy is a very small speaker company so they may be hard to demo in Canada, they may have a dealer there though.
If you are ever in the New York metro area for business, we can demo a lot of great speakers for you, PSB T3, Legacy, Dali, Kef, ATC.
Hope that helps
Dave owner
Audio Doctor NJ
We also sell the Legacy line and they might be perfect for you we compared them to the SCM 40 and felt that the Legacy was a stronger value for $7k over the SCM 40, but it still have some different strengths. Love those ATC 40's as well.
The Legacy Signature Se has a lot of the things you seek:
1: they are 92db efficient so they will play loud on 30 watts
2: they throw a huge soundstage
3: the Heil AMT midrange and tweeter are both silky smooth and have good detail
4; they have deep full bass down to 22hz.
5: they are a managable size big enough to sound room filling with a huge soundstage but not so big at to dominate
6: they are a very reasonable price $7k
7: they come in many different wood finishes
Currently they are our favorite overall performer for under $10k, unfortunatly Legacy is a very small speaker company so they may be hard to demo in Canada, they may have a dealer there though.
If you are ever in the New York metro area for business, we can demo a lot of great speakers for you, PSB T3, Legacy, Dali, Kef, ATC.
Hope that helps
Dave owner
Audio Doctor NJ