Who says studio monitors are "cold and analytical"?

******Cardioid*****

ATC are known for their dome mid driver. This is what they are most famous for and supposedly this dome has magical properties.

The idea of splitting the signal into parts has the advantage of being able to deisgn drivers which are optimized to reproduce the frequencies they cover.

However as with all speakers that use multiple drivers, splitting the signal into parts requires the parts to be summed up again using a crossover. The result will never be as good as if the signal had remained undivided to begin with. It takes GOLDEN EARS to really hear these deficiencies. I’ve not heard or read anybody speak about this so it can only be assumed that 99% of audiophiles aren’t good enough to really identify these flaws. I have been to speaker demonstrations where the speeakers were wired up out of phase to each other. Apparently I noticed it immediately whereas the guys doing the demo couldnt hear it. It was both laughable and shocking at the same time and goes to show how even flagrant mistakes can go unnoticed.

I did once hear the ATC SCM25. I heard no magic going on in the mids. In fact I was not impressed with what I heard overall.

heres a post from a ATC SCM25 user

https://gearspace.com/board/high-end/976060-atc-scm25a-revealing-just-wrong.html

I can barely listen to some older songs I used to like purely because they sound so bad on these monitors...

Another quote

I can't listen to 75% of my record collection without thinking 'this production sounds wrong'

That is a big RED FLAG when you have a speaker which makes 75% of your music sound bad, I dont regard that as a good design. In my experience, I have found that tracks which I thought were wrong or badly done, were always due to the speaker. Once the speakers had been retuned, I could appreciate the recording quality. Most speakers can only play a few tracks and sound good. A good speaker will play every track and 99% should sound good. There is no such thing as a bad recording.

Another quote about the ATC monitors:

 When I first heard a pair of ATCs- my old favorites sounded bad and I was disappointed!