Stereophile's 2021 products of the year

High efficiency speakers limit your choice of speakers.  
Plus many high efficiency speakers have very limited bass. That’s how they achieve high efficiency.  
So there is more to it than that.  Unless you must  have high efficiency speakers to enable some otherwise limited amplifier.  
Most speakers even lower efficiency ones with modest power amps will go loud enough for most. 

WRT to measurement based assessment. I can recall instances where Stereophile reviewers have waxed lyrical over a product, only to have Atkinson pull out a pretty woeful set of measurements.

Border Patrol springs to mind. Class A recommended
There are others.

Lonemountain:
ATC makes great sounding speakers but not very well known in the U.S. home audio market. Maybe an advertisement in Stereophile should be considered. ; )

lonemountain
Absolute Sound, Stereophile (and several other online magazines) have reviewed and recommended our our ATC products without one dollar of advertising- ever.

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https://www.stereophile.com/content/atv-scm7-v3-loudspeaker

https://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/atc_scm_11_loudspeaker/index.html

Cheers George

lonemountain,

At some point, I was really interested in ATC speakers, but found out that it was a dead-end project. They are so underrepresented on the market that it is hard, not to go to virtually impossible, to hear and see them in person. Dealers who cary them did not have much in stock. As close as I could get to them was musicdirect.com with some (unknown at the time) wait time and no returns. Which would mean spending unheard and sight unseen.

Even today, one dealer listed on your website does not even mention that they cary the brand on their website.

It is a pity that speakers universally thought of being good are so hard to check out.