High Quality of Radio 3 Stream.

[jayne lee wilson]

Love to know what your speakers are, little bird...actives, right?...
KEFs, or AVIs or something like...?

Quite a few out there now....Yamaha do them as well...

[Cockney Sparrow]

Love to know what your speakers are, little bird...actives, right?...
KEFs, or AVIs or something like...?

Quite a few out there now....Yamaha do them as well...

Well yes. (I saw Yamaha actives in Abbey road - with the B&W Nautilus's lined up in a corridor....). I was interested in actives having heard a wonderful playback sound in the control room (or whatever its called) of another London studio and only having heard of them as a professional product until then. (I've not been a frequent, or even reguler, frequenter of recording studios, I'll add).

I read a favourable review of the AVI ADM9.1 system in Gramophone - July 2011. I was eager to try them out, firstly as actives, and also because I had never been able to suspend disbelief of "system matching" - the many, many articles and letters in audio magazines (I always thought "what is this - digital files are 0's and 1's?). It provides a decent DAC, powerful and distortion free amplification and very good delivery from the speaker. I just add the sources - disc player, BBC Sounds and TV (to unravel some of the dreadful sound quality on TV) also of course the streaming service(s) via the Chromecast Audio. No vinyl - I could set up a deck - packed away - but haven't the time or inclination.

I bought three of AVI's systems/models as they were developed, my last being a floorstander. Good value - sold direct. My secondhand first active AVI design ADM9 in my home office are still going strong, and I hope the others are as long lasting too.......

You caught me just at the end of my afternoon tea break. I've got to be off to be busy now.........

[richardfinegold]

Great to hear, Richard.... could you get a bitrate readout via Chrome etc? I guess you have the AAC/MPEG4 now...?

No, regrettably. The CA will provide bitrate readings with the Internet Radio part of the streaming app, but not if one streams from a tablet using Chromecast or Air Play. I don't have bluetooth on the Cambridge streamer, btw, as I would have had to pay extra for a dongle and I already have a bt receiver in the system, albeit one that rarely gets used.