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Tidal vs ATC

Thinking about my end game speaker and seriously considering one from either brand. On the Tidal camp looking at either the Contriva G2 or Agoria and on the ATC camp the SCM150 or SCM300.
Any thoughts on this battle? The tidal I know is a truly amazing speaker. The contriva g2 is the best I've heard and has an amazing finish.  But I see insane praise from ATC for being a very accurate and extremely well made speaker. Only issue is I have no local dealers for ATC in canada. Maybe after the pandemic is over I'll fly to USA to hear them... but honestly even that makes me a bit nervous with all this going on.
Any thoughts?
smodtactical
vinylvalet
930 posts
 
The winning speaker at the June 2019 Scottsdale Speakerfest was the passive ATC SCM40. It was driven by the ATC CDA2 CD Preamp DAC (playing both CDs and music files from an Apple laptop) into the ATC P1 stereo amplifier. The speakers were placed on AV Room Service EVP isolation pads.
twoch
429 posts
 
 Tuff choice but Tekton
is not in the same league 
  Let's get that right 
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roxy54
8,206 posts
 
vinylvalet,
I was there and I thought it was the best by far too. And that is far from their best speaker!
smodtactical OP
986 posts
 
You know whats on my mind. Tidal Sunray G1... sometimes they have prior gen ones out there for cheap. When I move to my bigger listening space this would be a very compelling option like at a massively reduced price from msrp.
@sedgewick7 The sunray would be a good opponent to your mighty SCM300! :)
douglas_schroeder
3,281 posts
 
Well, well, well, the Sunray, eh? Now we're talking big boy speakers! I have heard them, and they are in a word magnificent! To do it up right you need to part with some serious green to do the amps, cables, etc. 
Sonic Impact T amp won't cut it with those!  ;)
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