To: Mike Pontelle - ATI Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Date: 12/24/2003
Subject: My New AT3007

Dear Mike:

Since our phone conversation a few weeks ago, I received my AT3007 and have had several days to listen to it and wanted to send my praises to you concerning the whole experience.

STELLAR!!! Yes, this experience has been a stellar one for our first foray into the world of purchasing High-End Audio and Home Theatre components!

First of all, kudos and serious praises must be given to Ralph Keyslay, president of InterActive Home Systems, your longtime associate and the most knowledgeable sales person I have EVER had the pleasure of buying from and an asset to ATI!

As far as my AT3007, may I say you and your team have truly outdone yourselves with this remarkable piece of High-End gear! Ever since the days of your SAE amplifiers, I have been waiting for the day I was able to buy a quality, robust and neutral sounding High-End amp and I have found it in the AT3007! Whether listening to movie soundtracks or music, the AT3007 has given my wife and I an absolutely incredible listening experience and will continue to do so for a very long time, I'm sure. All of a sudden, we hear things that our previous amplifiers never even picked up. Besides sounding incredible, some of the other positives I've noticed about the AT3007 are it's truly small size considering it's sheer power output, it's beautiful styling and most stunning to me personally, your design in keeping the AT3007 cool at high current periods. I purposely played our DVD of "T3" at near ear-shattering levels in our 20' x 17' theatre room to see how hot the AT3007 would actually get and to my surprise, when I placed my hands on the sides of the amp, I could actually feel the rush of cool room temperature air rushing past my hands into the amp while all the heat was being forced out of the top! Brilliant! A convection cooling system which eliminates the need for a fan and really does keep the amp cool!

Yes, Mike, from the very first praises for ATI and the AT3007 from Ralph Keyslay, to the actual hook up into my system and finally to the pleasure of using our new AT3007, I must say I will never buy another brand of power amplifier but ATI. ATI is to me today's SAE and actually owning an AT3007 is a moment I am savoring.

Keep up the GREAT work and thanks again,

Ron Rankin
Maine

Hi Ralph,

I've now had a few weeks with the AT2005, joined with a complimentary pre/pro and DIY high end speakers in a 5.1 AV system. This amp is very fast with exceptional resolution of detail. For action movies, at the listening position, it instantaneously brings my sweet but inefficient speakers (86 dB) from background dialogue in upper 60 dB's to measured peaks in low 90 dB's, sustained upper 80 dB's without any distortion or loss of clarity. I'm certain the amp still has headroom here, but my ears (and speakers) are viscerally satiated at that level without being left behind on the battlefield. The overlay of percussive blasts, shattering glass, and snarling monsters, etc., is very finely resolved. Musical detail is evident as well. For example, a snare can be easily identified as a stick, brush, center, edge, rim hit with/without delay, reverse delay, other effects, etc. Instrument tonalities and harmonics have depth and imaging accuracy without mush. Simply put, the AT2005 is fast, clean and true.

Build quality is commendable. While it's external simplicity will not qualify as a piece of display art (it's an amplifier, duhh), it is easy to see the attention paid to circuitry design and selection of quality components. The modular layout is solid and uncluttered. The balanced signal path has a dead silent noise floor, with absolutely no trace of hum or hiss. No extraneous noises arise from the amp chassis either and, well ventilated, it never feels hot to the touch. The sequential turn on of separate channels by remote trigger from my pre/pro is a nicely refined touch. Channels activate with quiet start up clicks and no other circuitry noise artifacts. "Sounds like the multiplex?" "Better" said the Wife - so the AT2005 gets to stay, only now, the pressure is on to chuck that old CRT for an HD widescreen that won't insult the fine audio.

Service from the ATI authorized dealer, www.wwsp.com/ati, was great. Thanks, Ralph, for taking the time to personally answer my endless technical questions and ensure my satisfaction with the purchase process. The new amplifier, securely packaged, arrived straight from the production facility within a week of placing the order.

Hey Ralph - Sorry, but pictures of amplifiers alone are sooo boring! I have attached one of the front of my AV system with my ugly CRT (with its necessary center channel magnetic interference "scaffold" - ugghh). Notice how the home built cabinets and speakers all match in stained oak - helping to sneak this stuff past the Wife without much complaint, whheewww!

Thanks, again!

Mark Beaulieu.

Hi Ralph,

As promised, I'm sending you some pics of our Home Theatre system. My system components are:

So Ralph, these are the components that are presently in our main Home Theatre room. We also have another 2 complete Home Theatre 5.1 systems for our bedroom and one for our lower level living room, but they are not in the same league, though okay with the likes of Yamaha, Sony, Polk speakers, Hsu subwoofer, etc. However, the upstairs Theatre Room is where we have our main system. I'm sorry it took a while but the construction has been....difficult, as it's difficult to get good work for contractors anymore, it seems!

So, one more after this, Ralph. I hope you like them and I look forward to seeing them on your website, as I am, indeed, a satisfied customer!!!

Thanks!

Ron Rankin