ATC SCM19A Active Speakers – Cherry

A nice pair of the highly regarded SCM19A Loudspeakers from British specialists ATC, coming in good condition – with some fading on the top and bottom on the right hand side of one of the cabinets – please see photographs. In the popular Cherry finish, they come in alternative ATC packaging with grilles, spikes, manual, mains cables and yes of course they have our standard three month warranty. Shipping on a pallet to UK only please.
ATC Say….
ATC was founded on a principle of engineering excellence, and that principle still defines our products today. Given the right opportunities, ATC products will deliver exceptional audio performance, but the opportunities will only arise from careful and thoughtful installation and use.
ATC was founded in London in 1974 by Australian émigré Bill Woodman, who still heads the company today. An enthusiastic pianist and engineer he was naturally drawn to loudspeaker design and, after a period working at Goodmans (where many of the names that went on to found British loudspeaker companies began their careers), he struck out on his own. The premise on which ATC began is a simple one – and one that, in many respects, is still true today: hi-fi loudspeakers tend to be detailed and accurate, but of limited dynamic range, while professional monitor speakers tend to express the opposite character. ATC products were designed from the outset to offer the best of both. It’s an easy concept to describe, but surprisingly difficult to engineer.
The difficulty inherent in designing such loudspeakers is one of scale. Hi-fi levels of accuracy and detail call for lightweight moving parts and delicate engineering. Professional monitor levels of performance, however, demand far more robust components engineered to survive the rigours of high level use for extended periods.
The only way to combine the two is through precision engineering of a class and scale more often associated with aerospace or motorsport. But the results are worth the effort and the cost. ATC loudspeakers, with their unique in-house designed drivers, combine the best of hi-fi and professional to devastating effect.
ATC has become synonymous with active systems. Choosing to offer active loudspeakers (where the passive systems still have their place, and ATC engineering skills can still bring remarkable results from them) is a fundamentally better solution to the problems posed by accurate, high level music reproduction.
The ATC instinct is always for the better solution. Not cheaper, not quicker, but better.
It was the development of active loudspeakers that first brought ATC into electronics design and engineering. Active speakers demand multiple power amplifiers, so ATC from the mid 1980s became not just a loudspeaker manufacturing company but an electronics manufacturer, too. The further step from electronics for active speakers to a range of stand-alone amplifier products was natural and now means that ATC engineering is available from the recording desk or CD player output to the ears.
From modest beginnings ATC has grown to become one of the very few manufacturers successful across both domestic and professional audio. By selecting ATC you join a group of music lovers, professional audio engineers, studios and musicians across the world that understand and value the engineering that goes into an ATC product.
Features:
New ATC designed and built dual suspension 25 mm soft dome HF unit with precision alloy wave guide.
“SL” spec bass driver with 75 mm integral Soft Dome.
9 kg optimised short coil/long gap motor assembly.
On-board grounded source 182 watt Class A/B Bi-amplifier.
Active crossover filters and overload protection.
Specifications:
Drivers: HF ATC 25 mm dual suspension Tweeter, Mid/LF ATC 150 mm SL
Matched Response: +/- 0.5 dB
Frequency Response (- 6 dB): 54 Hz – 22 kHz
Dispersion: ± 80° Coherent Horizontal, ± 10° Coherent Vertical
Max SPL: 108 dB
Crossover Frequency: 2.5 kHz
Connectors: Male XLR
Input sensitivity: 1 V
Filters: 2nd Order critically damped with phase compensation
Overload Protection: Active FET momentary gain reduction
Amplifier Output: 150 W LF, 32 W HF
Cabinet Dimensions: 980 (H) x 370 (W) x 344 (D) mm
Weight: 31.0 kg