I heard the ADM9s at the Bristol Show last year and I pressed Ashley at the time about the quality of the source material and how it was encoded. He stated that MP3 was fine and that higher resolution than that was irrelevant. He also refused to state how each of the recordings he was playing had been encoded/on which particular format.

I've heard his setup; it sounded dull, flat, strident and boring.

Oh, it was loud but very undynamic.

He also rubbished my findings having heard the Naim demonstration.

The guy is clearly a charismatic and yet disingenuous plonker.