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UK Show Premier for new CDA2 CD/DAC preamplifier

ATC is celebrating its Bristol show debut with the UK show premier of its CDA2 Mk2 CD/DAC preamplifier, driving a mix of the brand’s multi-award winning passive and active speaker designs.

The Mk2 combines convenient USB access to high-resolution music streaming with an upgraded CD transport and DAC board, dedicated headphone amplification, expanded input choices and analogue circuits redesigned to deliver an extremely wide and flat frequency response with very low distortion.

Join us for the first time at Bristol: Room 102!

The show takes place from Friday 23rd  to Sunday 25th February and is held at the Marriott City Centre Hotel, Bristol.

Sound & Vision – The Bristol Show Website

Martin Colloms Reviews the SCM50PSL for Hi-Fi Critic

“this is a fine loudspeaker of startling dynamic range with great clarity and excellent resolution.”

Martin Colloms, Hi-Fi Critic, December 2017.

The SCM50PSL has been awarded a much coveted, ‘Audio Excellence’ award by highly regarded magazine, Hi-Fi Critic, the only independent advert free magazine featuring venerable reviewers, Paul Messenger and Martin Colloms.

Here’s just a little more of Martin’s thoughtful insights into the SCM50PSL.

“The inherent neutrality enabled all kinds of material to express itself, from jazz (both forceful and relaxed examples) to heavy rock such as classic Hendrix, where you were brought almost to the front of the audience at high sound levels. The more modern Keith Richards’ Main Offender sounded like we were present in the monitoring room, it was so punchy and immediate…I suppose its great virtue was the way it became acoustically unobtrusive, allowing the wide range of music programme we sampled to tell their individual stories.”

“This ATC three-way generated powerful, tuneful and believably accurate sound images. Despite reasonably compact stand-mount proportions, it had fine bass with extension, tune playing and attack, a very neutral and well integrated midrange, and a sweet, detailed and natural high frequencies. Rather more powerful than its modest proportions might indicate, this fine design delivers stereo images on a grand scale, and conveys much of the character and detail in fine recordings. It hits the audio excellence level for its sheer all round ability – not least the massive power handling and the resulting dynamic range.”

Martin Colloms, Hi-Fi Critic, December 2017.

To read the review in full, open or download the PDF here: Hi-Fi Critic SCM50PSL Review