Tell me about valve equipment

yes very true a lot of people i know are only interested in big brands and big priced boxes spend a lot and get the best but this is not true .
a story on the diy scene the valve amplifier company which is no more called arion acoustics i lived 20 mins away they were designing there 300b single ended and had audionote ,sowther ,magniquest ,tango ,and border patrol output transformers to experiment with and the border patrol were best
a diy person has not this luxuary
there is a good little amplifier the decware zen but maybe they are bad value for money now

A DIY person can have that luxury. BP transformers (at that time) would've come from here.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/300B-Class-A-o...3A1%7C294%3A50

although personally I'd use Tango, Hashimoto or Tamura for a DIY project.
You get what you pay for.

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Originally Posted by Marco

Dave, if the anodyne, non-descript, muzak emitting from ADM9s is the benchmark for what you describe above then I'm afraid we're living on two different planets regarding what we consider as a "great results"!

Marco.

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ADM WHAT??? I don't know what they sound like, I've never heard them...

If you have heard them, what have you heard them with? I don't think a lo-res download via an Apple notebook is quite what you would have in mind. A decent recording at full bit strength possibly, or an analogue feed via a good preamp able to drive several metres of interconnect perhaps. Like I said, I've never heard them and couldn't own such a speaker right now as I'm having far too much fun with the old gear I have. So there :cool:

I haven't heard them either, Dave, but people whose ears I trust have, which based on the information I've received, allows me thus to make comment. The point is that the products you've cited as being representative of shining examples of solid-state art are no longer relevant to AVI or the current marketplace.

For me, there's no getting away from the fact that AVI have 'sold out' their long-held and respected audiophile credentials to pander to the needs of the convenience market, using computer audio as the vehicle.

I hope for the sake of AVI as a company, and people's livelihoods, that their decision was the right one. I'm a little dubious though of Ashley's claims of huge success, as reported so 'enthusiastically' on various forums. He strikes me as a man under severe pressure.

Marco.

Not for internet discussion I suspect ;) but I don't think the audiophile market is big enough to sustain small companies for much longer.

Dinner calls - speak later...

Dave,

I don't doubt that whatsoever, but the trouble is companies such as AVI churning out so-so products to appeal to the 'cool set', who value minimalism coupled with the latest in technology far more than they do ultimate audio performance, drives down the standards we value. This has a knock-on effect on the whole of the industry and gives genuine enthusiasts like you and me less of the products that we love.

Glenn Croft has got the right idea - give people superb sounding equipment at realistic and affordable prices to show how good a sound you can get for such little outlay. I'm sure he's surviving just nicely. Business is what you make of it. If only more people in the industry shared his values.

Enjoy your din-dins! :)

Marco.

1 min DSJR is online and the next thing. He's gone!!!!

No offense Dave.

He did say he was off for his dinner. Some people should perhaps read the old posts again first before being too eager for the new ones lol.

Very humble poor-man's din-dins too :(

Don't judge ADM9.1's until you've heard them on sources you trust, any more than I shall :) There were too many people out for Ashley's blood a year ago to make second hand listening opinions truly valid and the sound at the show was pretty dire by all accounts - foot, shooting themselves?...

I'm sure that ADM9s are perfectly adequate for their purpose, but knowing the sort of speakers and sound I like, you'll perhaps forgive me if I fail to get moist at the prospect of listening to any tiny box with a 6" drive unit, no matter what it's connected to :eyebrows:

I'm afraid that Ashley is his own worst enemy.

Btw, I often find 'peasant food' to be most nourishing and flavourful ;)

Marco.