ADM9s have been in production for two years now and theyve been a tremendous success, however things are changing rapidly. An increasing amount of 24 bit material is becoming available because many producers are unhappy with what record companies do to CDs to make them more commercial - they want people to hear their work as they produced it. As a result there are an increasing number of downloads or DVD A tracks available with better sound quality. Downloads have rendered CD players redundant for all but traditionalist Audiophiles and this makes their future even less certain because they cannot play 24 Bit material.
Were very much a purist audiophile company (albeit one coated liberally with BS repellent!) and were anxious to be amongst the first to get the very best sound quality that these new Studio Master Downloads and Reference Recordings will allow and to that end, weve completely redesigned almost every part of the original ADM9.
ADM9.1 comprise of the highest Audio Quality 24/192 DAC, a remote controlled three input Preamplifier, two optical digital and one analogue RCA - an electronic crossover and two power amplifiers (75 WPC for the tweeter and 250WPC for the bass drivers). This makes them unique in being a complete Hi Fi system in a pair of stand, wall or shelf mounted speakers. All they need is zeros and ones. i.e. anything with a digital output.
Conventional active loudspeakers are the standard in professional recording studios, but are a not a complete system because they do not usually have a DAC or preamplifiers built in, so these need to be purchased separately for domestic use.
It is widely accepted that active loudspeakers sound better than passive ones. This is because the crossovers can be made truly transparent and power amplifiers can be optimised for the particular drive units chosen. Contrary to traditional Hi Fi opinion, you achieve a far better result by integrating as much of the system as possible. There are the massive savings to be made and it is no exaggeration to state that ADM9.1s will outperform, by an appreciable margin, separates systems costing many times their price. For example despite their costing much more, our Lab Series CD player and Integrated Amplifier driving Duos/ Pro-Nine-Plus/Neutron 4s -( or any passive two way speaker for that matter) - simply cannot sound as good, because the quality of the front end (any front end) is sabotaged by the passive crossover in loudspeakers. This is fact not hype.
AVI sees no sense in docking an iPod with its comparatively fiddly interface when iTunes in a domestically acceptable computer works so much better and gives access to so much more, or there are many excellent streaming devices like Sonos, Logitechs Duet or Squeezebox, Apple TV, Airport Express or Roku Soundbridge. You can even use a DVD or CD player. For music lovers/collectors ADM9.1s are the perfect solution.
In these days of limited resources its irresponsible of manufacturers to produce products that use multiple expensive metal enclosures to house everything, some with separate and larger add on power supplies, when there is absolutely no need for it in a properly designed system, especially when they cannot produce comparable sound quality to ADM9.1s that are a fraction of the cost.
The ADM9.1s come with 2 x 5 metre mains lead, one by 5 metre interconnecting cable and the handset, so all you need is a suitable Optical Cable and two Triple A batteries.