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TheDigitalMusicExperts.com is very happy to announce the arrival of AVI’s new ADM 9RSS!

AVI has improved the ADM 9s three times now.  The prior update (to ADM 9T status) resulted in a subtle improvement in sound quality with significant improvements to system operation and flexibility.  While the update to ADM 9T status was an evolutionary advance, the latest upgrade to the ADM 9RSS specification is a revolutionary one.  The ADM 9RSS is by far the best sounding ADM9 to date!

Martin Grindrod and Ashley James at AVI have spent the last two years evaluating a wide range of prototype mid-bass and treble drive units, all of which sound quite different from one another.  These tests demonstrated to AVI that the DACs, preamps and power amps included in the ADM 9T offered exceptional performance and could not be bettered without substantial increases in price.  As these components were properly designed and executed, the differences between them and even the more expensive versions were infinitesimal compared to those heard between the prototype drive units.

Because of this, the electronics in the ADM 9RSS are for the most part unchanged.  The only significant change was to lower the crossover frequency in order to suit the new and drastically improved drive units.  The ADM 9RSS uses a new 6.5” mid-bass driver with better deep bass response and lower distortion than its predecessor.  For the treble range, AVI is using their favorite ScanSpeak Revelator 1.1” soft dome, ferro-fluid cooled tweeter.  This is the same tweeter AVI used in their $10,000.00 per pair Brio  speakers, and that other manufacturers use in speakers costing over $50,000.00 per pair!  The ScanSpeak Revelator allows AVI to lower the crossover frequency between the mid-bass and tweeter, resulting in decreased intermodulation and total harmonic distortion, improved dispersion and in room power response as well as offering more extended high frequencies.

Overall, the resulting ADM 9RSS is a revelation.  All of the strong suits of the earlier ADM9s have been enhanced.  There is even greater clarity, even greater precision to the stereo image, even greater soundstage width and depth as well deeper bass extension and wider dynamic range . These improvements are all easily heard, and are most apparent with hard to reproduce instruments such as piano and voice.

Just as their predecessors were, the new ADM 9RSS are unique in not only being active but also in having a built in remote controlled preamp with a state of the art Digital to Analog Converter (DAC).  Most of all, the ADM 9RSS are distinctive because they sound better than products costing many times their price.

Since the new and better drivers cost more and the cost of everything else has risen in the four years since their last price increase, the new ADM9RSS are now priced at $2795.00 per pair.  This is still a fraction of the cost of the legacy systems they replace!

AVI ADM 9RSS Gloss Black

Power amplifiers - High speed, linear, analogue bipolar, 75 WPC for the tweeters and 250 WPC for the bass drivers.  Distortion is typically better than 0.002% with a dynamic range of 120 dB.

Crossovers- High quality 4th order Linkwitz Riley discrete analogue.

Preamplifier - High performance, state of the art analogue preamplifier with two digital and one analogue input.  Operation is via infra red remote and volume settings are remembered for each individual input.  Analogue input feature fixed gain capability for easier integration with home theater and multi-channel audio applications.

DAC- State of the Art 24/192, completely jitter free design.

Bass driver - Upgraded high power handling 6.5" paper cone drive unit with 1.5" voice coil and exceptionally broad bandwidth, thus enabling a phase perfect crossover at 2.3 kHz.  Bass extension rated to better than 55Hz (-6dB).

Tweeter - 1.1" ScanSpeak Revelator Silk Dome tweeter with Ferro Fluid cooling and 28 kHz extension (-3dB).

System Amplitude response better than + or - 2 dB, 100 Hz - 20 kHz.

Max continuous SPL (both speakers driven at 1m, 100 hr rating) 108dB with +8dB headroom.

Dimensions - 12.25” X 8” X 12.25” inc. connectors

Net Weight - 20 Lbs per speaker

Shipping Weight - 55 Lbs per pair

AVI-d ADM 9RSS Technical Specifications:

AVI ADM 9RSS Active Digital Monitor

Introductory price of $2795.00 pr.

Gloss Black Finish Only

AVI ADM 9RSS Gloss White

The new ADM 9RSS are comprised of:

  1. oa state of the art 24bit 192kHz digital to analogue converter (DAC)

  2. oa high performance remote controlled three input line level preamplifier featuring two optical digital and one analogue RCA inputs with fixed gain capability for easier integration in home theater and mulit-channel applications

  3. oa low distortion 4th order Linkwitz-Riley electronic crossover at 2.3kHz

  4. otwo linear, bipolar power amplifiers (per speaker) with 75 WPC for the tweeter and 250WPC for the woofer

  5. oprecision engineered 1.1" ScanSpeak Revelator tweeter and an upgraded 6.5" long throw midbass driver

  6. oa rigid, highly damped enclosure finished in high quality real wood veneers or high gloss piano finish

This makes the ADM 9TRSS unique, as they are a COMPLETE Hi Fi System in a pair of compact monitor speakers, capable of stand, shelf or wall mounting.  All they need is a multimedia audio source (either analogue or digital) and you have a high performance, compact, efficient and versatile Hi Fi system.

Conventional active loudspeakers are the standard in professional recording studios, but are NOT a COMPLETE SYSTEM because they do not have a built in digital to analogue converter (DAC) or preamplifier.  To use these professional market products at home, you would need to purchase a DAC and preamplifier separately, increasing both cost and clutter.

It is widely accepted that active loudspeakers sound better than passive ones.  This is because the crossovers can be designed to perform in a truly transparent manner and their power amplifiers can be optimized for the particular drive units.  Contrary to traditional Hi Fi opinion, you achieve a far better result by integrating as much of the system as possible as the manufacturer can precisely match each component in the playback chain.  There are also large cost savings to be made, resulting in a significant reduction in end user prices.

It is no exaggeration to state that ADM 9RSS will outperform, by an appreciable margin, traditional separate component systems costing many times their price.  For example, despite their costing much more AVI’s Lab Series CD player and Integrated Amplifier driving Duos/ Pro-Nine-Plus/Neutron 4's (or any passive two way speaker for that matter) simply will not sound as good, because the quality of the front end (any front end!) sources will be sabotaged by the passive crossover in the loudspeakers.

You may have noticed that AVI does not include an iPod dock with their ADM 9RSS.  AVI sees little benefit in doing so as an iPod is optimized to be operated as a portable device.  When used with a dock, an iPod becomes a bit “fiddly” to control and the display is often hard to see from across the room.  A much better route to go is to use iTunes running on a domestically acceptable computer and stream the content to you ADMs.  This can be done in a number of ways (give us a call or drop us an email and we can explain the options to you and make so specific recommendations) while using your iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad to control the system.  This method gives you much more control as well as greater access to the wide variety of media available in our modern digital age.

Finally, in these days of limited resources it is irresponsible for manufacturers to produce products that use multiple expensive metal enclosures that are also relatively energy inefficient.  Some manufacturers even require separate, large add on power supplies to work their best.  AVI believe that there is absolutely no need for this to be the case in a properly designed system!  A pair of ADM 9RSS use far fewer resources in both their production and their day to day use than traditional component audio systems.  In fact, when playing a pair of ADM 9RSS they consume about as much energy as a Mac Mini - and that is some pretty green company to keep!

The AVI ADM 9TRSS is currently available in Gloss Black finish only.  A Gloss White finish will be added mid to late summer 2013.

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