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Hi Dave,
As long as Ashley James, Farney, and other blinkered puppets of their ilk, continue their ridiculous campaign against 'legacy hi-fi' on the HDDA forum, then their toy computer speakers are fair game for appropriate ridiculeWe need to kill the AVI annihilation-fest right now and leave the ADM speakers alone, as they play no part in AOS in my opinion.
Marco.
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
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I'm David.
Who actually looks in there except you and me (and the ADM owners)?
I can't go on and I can't go back, I don't feel so matter of fact,
I tried and tried to make good sense, What's the good to try it all again?
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Bah, who cares, anyway.
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Originally Posted by DSJR
Yes Yes Kill Kill AVI Kill ......oh that's not what you meant, oh well I'll STFU then
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Yup, that's the same series as my amp so probably has similar innards and sound.Don't know. It looked like this one:
I have no idea how it measures, but it sounds very very good and exerts impressive authority over my current speakers.
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Hi Dave,
As long as Ashley James, Farney, and other blinkered puppets of their ilk, continue their ridiculous campaign against 'legacy hi-fi' on the HDDA forum, then their toy computer speakers are fair game for appropriate ridicule
Marco.
Well, I have no interest in that forum and care even less about what they say.
I was just responding to Dave's comments ....
IMHO the ADM9 is a deeply flawed product and should never have been released onto the market. I suspect that it is only the superbly enacted marketing hype that sells these abominations. I agree with Marco in that I would not classify it as a high fidelity product. It has low-fi sound at a mid-fi price.I believe history will say that they still do now.......
It's just that their current products don't hype up the mid bass as most small boxes do..
Based on my experience, the older AVI kit is an entirely different story. I suspect that the difference lies in a change of leading role within the company - it used to be audio engineering-led, it is now marketing hype-led. Very sad, but probably very profitable!
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I'm on the lookout for more AVI Lab Series kit ... any suggestions/offers?
Yeah, I know about the cdp on eBay ... shhhhh!
Last edited by jandl100; 05-04-2010 at 12:38.
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I'm David.
I said i wouldn't answer, so I won't, except to say that like going from a big fast car to a little family shopping-trolley, owner/lovers of good big speakers just can't and won't understand small ones, no matter how good they may be (or not).
Anyway, give it a week or two and Jerry will have changed his amp again
I can't go on and I can't go back, I don't feel so matter of fact,
I tried and tried to make good sense, What's the good to try it all again?
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Of course!Anyway, give it a week or two and Jerry will have changed his amp again
So much hifi, so little time!
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And didn't you also listen to them at the one and only hi-fi show AVI demonstrated them at a couple of years ago? I seem to remember the word "anodyne" being used as part of your vocabulary
Basically, since AVI gave up making REAL hi-fi equipment (i.e. separates and proper sized speakers), they've abandoned any notion of producing equipment which qualifies being labelled as high fidelity!
Marco.
P.S Sorry, Alfie!No worries Marco, I'm used to it now!
alfie
Main System: Denon DP-6000 VPI Base/Fidelity Research FR64s/Ortofon SPU Royal GM MKII/Shelter 901/Auditorium 23 SUT/Pure Sound P10/SB Touch or Audio Note CDT & M2Tech Young Dac/BL Audio LP-1/New Audio Frontiers KT66 Legend/Living Voice OBX.
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