![]() Setting up an ATC is not very difficult after you know their basic requirements but is important else it doesnt make sense to buy it. There are many 200k amplifiers which are miserable. As you may know, such specification is not easily found even if you are ready to pay twice the price of this speaker. Power fed to it should be of high quality in the first place and at least 75-100 watts for SCM11 to make it sing. Secondly, yes an ATC needs clean power, with good current. In case of SCM19 it takes close to 1000 hours. We are talking about 500 hours, not 200 hours. It is good to buy second hand ATC because that you will save you from the painful burn in process. So 75k is hardly a deal, unless you are dead sure it is less than a year old and is well maintained. Nikhil, an ATC SCM11 can be had brand new with papers and warranty from a dealer for roughly about 95k. There are also some strange listings showing up on Olx and Quickr for SCM 50 and 100s which are $$$ speakers! Not sure what to make of them but it sure seems like a container load of ATC speakers fell of a bus somewhere. I'm starting to wonder if there is a number of these monitor speakers being flogged in the used market after probably misguided purchases or heavy use in the pro studios. The real question is that's a whopping 40% off list price for just 4-6 months use. I am just curious about this because similarly priced Dynaudio bookshelf are available at close to the 75K figure on the used market. I am also aware that there are a few speakers available at Rs 65K - 75K in the used market. I know that the ATCs are known to require at least 200 hrs break in but the dealer said 50 hrs is plenty. ![]() While the sound was good it was really hard on the ears about 15-20 mins into the audition. I had a chance to listen to a brand new pair at the Hyderabad Dealer on Friday. One of my candidates are the ATC SCM 11 monitors. I've been auditioning speakers a bit recently. ![]()
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