Ed Selley
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40k+ spend to pair with a 65" oled and a 720p PJ.As a B&W lover, i have no doubt these will be impresssive and i’d love to know where any of them could be auditioned in Kent, but I would travel many miles before i part with my hard-earned.
However, what do peeps think about their use in a home theatre room, 7.2.4
Wow - been a while since i posted here, now i recall the snobbery of some so called disguinshed members.40k+ spend to pair with a 65" oled and a 720p PJ.
OK....
A friend has those ATC’s, attached to a Cyrus stack in a small sitting room, have to say i was mightily impressed and concur with your assessment on the mids and treble, so I would have to nod in agreement that perhaps yes, past a certain PP, some of us don’t have the ears to differentiate, however the eye candy part does.At which point do improvements in SQ become… subjective?
I still have with me a pair of MA PL100IIs which, I think, are in the same ballpark as the previous generation, the B&W 805 D3.
As you can see from my signature and picture, I‘m using a pair of the much cheaper ATC SCM11s that I consider to have a superior SQ to the MAs despite the price difference: mids and treble are more detailed and natural and the bass is also more defined, just lacking in body (that’s the only aspect in which they fall short in comparison to the MAs).
Even the review of the PL100IIs here on avreview mentions that they are “a true taste of the high end at an almost reasonable price”. Somehow I feel I should be more impressed than I ever was.
Have I become too demanding in my expectations, or does really SQ become subjective from a certain price point on?