We are indebted to Ben Lilly and Dave Speirs from ATC for venturing so far east for the two day loudspeaker presentation. We ordered our new active 20’s are in burr magnolia veneer (it’s myrtle apparently). They look extremely striking but do sound utterly sublime running on the end of Naim NSC 222 with NPX 300. We’ve had active SCM20’s in the distant past, so these are not a totally new idea, but these are far better loudspeakers than their predecessors.
The active 50 SE towers isn the large central space were fed by double power supplied Naim ND 555 streamer through Naim Statement S1 pre-amp were really quite stunning. We’ve had the SCM100SE active siblings on site before and we were really impressed by what they could do. The SE series have damped multi layer cabinets and upgraded electronics and the ones that we’ve been playing have a great deal of the benign nature of the 100SE’s in a more manageable package.
We’re holding onto them for a little while, just in case you still want to hear them.
In the front dem room we stepped away from Naim using Auralic S1 Aries streaming transport running into Chord Dave DAC via Chord Ultimate 3 preamp.
We had a full house on Friday and almost as many here on Saturday, not bad, considering this is a bank holiday weekend.
Kevin ‘interviewed’ Ben after which we were able to ask questions and heckle. We had two sessions, one per day and it was a lovely, sociable time, enjoyed by all. Thanks to all who came along to help snaffle the food and drink and avoid us looking sad and lonely
