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This skill is crucial for any Master wanting to loop, as Quick boosts natural NP gain. Tactical Body B gives both a Critical boost and a boost to Xiang’s Quick and Buster.In the future this will also have a Critical gather rate skill and double the Critical Damage buff, making it first priority to boost to max, but for now it can be left to second. Masters most likely will use this in tandem with Tactical Body B for a one turn burst, and ignore the evasion effect. Foresight A is the first of two Critical boosts, also providing a one turn evasion.Afterwards, they can concentrate on Star generation. As such, Masters should prioritize his Critical damage, which is equivalent in magnitude on his first and second skill, maxing it for greatest effectiveness. While Xiang Yu can be used for looping, it is in such a rare situation that his looping capabilities are mostly ignored in prioritizing his skills. Although Xiang does have a 1-turn evasion, this skill often is tied to his Critical damage so it is often not used for survival. He does have a large health pool, but it still is miniscule compared to the damage he’d take in use. Like all Berserkers, Xiang takes double damage from every class in the game except other Berserkers. This makes him rather one-dimensional as a primary damage dealer, with either his Noble Phantasm or his Critical damage being ignored in favor of the other. Hard to Supportĭue to the nature of Xiang being meant for both Buster criticals and Quick Noble Phantasms, it is hard to get a perfect support for him. Even worse, he has no Star gather, meaning unless he has a copious amount of stars available or the right luck, he won’t be able to use a Critical when needed. Tactical Body does make up for this a bit with a Quick and Buster up for three turns, but his base non-critical damage is not what makes him good. Xiang is capable of dishing out critical hits, but it is only a single turn of burst with a five/six turn cooldown at max level. Just be careful that he doesn’t make you part of the massacre too! Strengths Should a Master want a heavy critical damage dealer, they can’t go wrong with Xiang Yu. Like always, as a Berserker he also suffers from squishiness. He’s also difficult to support, as his Noble Phantasm favors Quick supports, and his cards/criticals favor Buster supports. Even if a Master was looking for one-turn criticals, Xiang Yu has no way to gather stars to himself before his interlude, and Berserkers have the worst natural star gather rates in the game. Xiang Yu’s criticals are great for a single turn, but are then stuck on a long cooldown. However, all of this madness comes with a price. This is further enhanced by his Ignore Invincibility on Arts of a Conqueror. Another huge strength is his multi-hit Quick AoE Noble Phantasm, which does make him a candidate for looping with a double Skadi setup. With two skills to boost his Critical damage via Foresight A++ and Tactical Body B, and a third to generate Critical stars with Arts of a Conqueror A, he winds up getting a whopping 100% Critical damage to add on top to his three Buster cards. Xiang Yu’s strength without a doubt is his ability to dish out the damage with Critical hits. Xiang Yu was once a fierce rebel who ordered the mass murder of civilians in cities which surrendered peacefully, and in FGO he remains a brutal Berserker who destroys everything in sight with his Quick AoE Noble Phantasm and strong Critical hits. 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This isn’t just a step up – it’s a running leap.” What Hi-Fi October 2014 “ATC has raised the bar it set itself. Recommended Power Amplifier: 75 to 300 WattsĬonnectors : Binding Posts/4mm Plugs, bi-wireĬabinet Dimensions (HxWxD): 381x232x236mm (grill adds 28mm depth) In-house, hand-wound precision flat wire coil.įlat impedance curve allowing easy load for amplifiers.ĪTC speakers are available in various veneers and finishes, please contact us to find out what veneers are available for this model.ĭrivers: HF ATC 25mm Neodymium soft dome, Mid/LF ATC 150mm CLDĭispersion: ☘0° Coherent Horizontal, ☑0° Coherent Vertical “CLD” driver technology with 45mm integral soft dome. New ATC designed and built 25mm soft dome HF unit with precision alloy wave guide. In use, both speakers had the well-controlled, reasonably well-extended bass you hope for from a sealed-box design.ATC Speakers and Hifi components are now available in Queensland and Northern NSW, please call Terry at GC HiFi on 0419448452 to discuss options or to arrange a private listening session of the various ATC speakers we have on our demo list.ĪTC speakers including the SCM11 are now available for audition on the Gold Coast, please contact us to arrange a listening session. I'd have to call the specifications race a tie. ATC claims low-frequency extension for the SCM 11 of 56Hz, ≦dB Aerial, 60Hz, ≢dB, and 50Hz, ≨dB. Stated impedance is 8 ohms for the ATC vs 4 ohms for the Aerial. (Of course, this does not translate into twice as much bass.) ATC claims a sensitivity of 85dB for the SCM 11 vs Aerial's claim of 86dB for the 5B. Perhaps more importantand I keep making a point of this because I think it's both nonintuitive and often overlooked by audiophiles while shoppingthe Aerial 5B's 7.1" mid/woofer has just about twice the surface area of the ATC SCM 11's 6" cone: 39.59 vs 19.63 in 2. So the ATC's cabinet is about 10% larger. The Aerial 5B measures 13" high by 7.9" wide by 10.8" deep, displaces 1109 in 3, and weighs 22 lbs. The ATC SCM 11's cabinet measures 15" high by 8.3" wide by 9.8" deep, displaces 1220 in3, and weighs 17.6 lbs. A recess in the rear panel holds two pairs of sturdy, knurled, non≮C-compliant binding posts of brass, with brass jumpers installed for single-wiring.ĪTC's SCM 11 and Aerial Acoustics' 5B (which I wrote about in June) are variations on the same themesealed-box, stand-mounted two-ways costing about $2000/pairso it seemed reasonable to compare them. Black fabric grilles on MDF frames attach to the speaker with plastic pins, but I didn't use them. The baffle is made of some sort of composite, and finished in a soft piano-black semigloss. Although the cabinets of the review pair I received were veneered in cherrywood (with exceptional matching across the pair), the drivers are inset in a baffle board that sits proud of the cabinet face and covers all but its bottom few inches (which are veneered). The SCM 11 is a stand-mounted two-way design with a 1" soft-dome tweeter with a neodymium magnet structure and a waveguide of some proprietary alloy, and a 6" mid/woofer. Nonetheless, the SCM 11's CLD cone is claimed to reduce distortion between 300Hz and 3kHz by an unstated amount. Super Linear technology is claimed to reduce third-order harmonic distortion 10≡5dB between 100Hz and 3kHz, which makes me eager to hear it. The SCM 19 costs $3150/pair, which puts it outside the limits of this hunt for affordable systems (though it looks very tempting). The SCM 11 has Constrained Layer Damping (CLD) on its cone but doesn't share the Super Linear magnet technology found in the SCM 19, a superficially similar two-way with the same size woofer in a larger cabinet. (ATC's larger designs are ported.)ĪTC's lineup of consumer speakers includes one model below the SCM 11, the SCM 7, which has a 5" mid/woofer and costs $1050/pair. I didn't realize until I removed the SCM 11 from its cloth bag that its bass loading is sealed-box had I known that, I would have requested them even earlier. I requested a pair of ATC's SCM 11 passive monitors because its price of $1750/pair in real cherry veneer (or $1850/pair in black ash) fit into my quest to find affordable systems in the $2500$3750 range. ATC loudspeakers are all still made in the UK, and were a favorite of the late J. 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Monitor and remediate violations of labor standards, including taking steps to address and prevent future violations.Train suppliers and partners on the code of conduct and labor standards and ensure that grievance mechanisms are in place and accessible for workers in the cobalt mining industry.Adopt and implement a code of conduct that incorporates respect for international human rights, including fundamental principles and rights at work, such as freedom of association and collective bargaining, occupational health and safety, non-discrimination, and the elimination of child labor and forced labor.Identify and engage with stakeholders to map the supply chains of products that may involve cobalt and conduct risk and impact assessments. February 16, 2018.Įstablish effective due diligence and social compliance systems to reduce labor risks in the cobalt supply chain. Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo Credit: © Samir Tounsi/AFP/Getty ImagesĪ conveyor belt carries chunks of raw cobalt after a first transformation at a plant in Lubumbashi before being exported, mainly to China, to be refined. Over 90% of the DRC’s cobalt was transported to China ( $2.17 Billion in 2020), with most intended for “fine” refining and integration into battery chemicals, as shown in the graphic below. In 2020, the Democratic Republic of the Congo exported $2.36 Billion in cobalt. When this happens, cobalt produced with child labor becomes impossible to distinguish from cobalt mined without child labor, tainting DRC's cobalt exports with child labor. In the process of refining cobalt prior to export, cobalt from multiple sources is mixed together. Chinese firms own, operate, or finance most of the DRC's cobalt mines. However, due to lack of enforcement of labor laws, widespread poverty, and a growing global demand for cobalt, children continue to work in dangerous conditions mining this critical mineral.Ĭlick here and here to learn more about Ziki's story.Ĭhildren work at the very earliest stages of the rechargeable battery supply chain-a supply chain dominated by China, which imports nearly 90% of its cobalt from the DRC. The DRC's laws prohibit children under the age of 18 from working in mining. They can fall into open mine shafts or they can be trapped or crushed by tunnel collapses. Often working in tight spaces underground without proper safety equipment or procedures, child laborers face serious risks of injury or death. In the DRC, over 40,000 children, some as young as 6 years old, work in cobalt mines. But many of his peers still work in the mines. In early 2018, Ziki was able to leave the cobalt mine and enroll in school for the first time. Each evening, with hands weary from washing cobalt and a heart longing for education, he returned home with a mere dollar or two in his pocket to provide for his family and tend to his sick grandmother. He worked in blistering heat under dangerous and exploitative labor conditions washing cobalt. As an 11-year-old, he had never seen the inside of a classroom, nor could he read or write. The developing battery materials company plans to produce raw materials to supply batteries for up to 1.5 million EVs annually in North America and Europe, according to the statement.Ziki Swazey was a child laborer in one of the DRC's artisanal small-scale cobalt mines. "Our plant will be one of two major cobalt sulfate refineries outside China, with an estimated 5% of global market share once operating at full capacity," Mell said.Īfter cobalt refining operations begin, Electra will pursue subsequent phases of development at the site to create an integrated "battery materials park." 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