“MC Audiotech’s Mark Conti, ever the gentleman, even when confronted by a rabid reporter, unveiled a system of such sweet tone and dynamic might that it soothed my inner beast.”
“July 2021: Rick Becker reviewed the MC Audiotech Forty10 reference speakers at EnjoyTheMusic.com”
“June 2021: Designed by Paul Paddock with assistance from Mark Conti, this bi-amped baby houses its woofers in its bottom cabinet, and hands off everything above 100Hz to its upper panel; the line-level passive crossover is external, housed in a small box. The music played was all classical, including Copland from the Oregon Symphony, Shostakovich from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Berg Violin Concerto from a BBC Music Magazine handout.“
“August 2020: Achieving ultimate sound reproduction remains an elusive goal, and to get there, speaker designers have devised a multitude of ways to “move air.” Most loudspeaker designers—even on their flagship models costing five and six figures—employ electrodynamic drivers (cones and magnets) to reproduce the entire audible frequency spectrum.”
“April 2020: Howard Kneller wrote… Like Philadelphia’s pretzels, the two-way, dipole Forty-10 is unique. The speaker’s upper cabinet contains ten (hence the “10”) Wide Band Line Source (WBLS), 7.5″-wide dynamic transducers. Conti says that Paddock developed and improved this transducer, a highly advanced version of Linaeum’s tweeter, over 40 years (hence the “Forty”).
“February 2020: When I first saw a picture of the MC Audiotech Forty-10 loudspeaker, which is priced at $35,000/pair, I knew that I was looking at a unique loudspeaker…”
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