ADS-910's

[GD70]

So my wife is visiting her mother for the next 4 days, so you know what that means, crankin the 910's!
Did so tonight, five straight hours of hammerin bass, amazing vocals and electronic music all together, digital, streaming, and vinyl!
With the newly rebuilt mids and tweeters, these are stunning, no other way to say it! These are in my cave in the basement, three floors up to the attic just to see, I could feel the bass, that's just sick!
The M-7050 drives these extremely well, not even breaking a sweat, the cabinet is barely warm.
Four more days!

 

[michigannick]

How do your neighbors feel about your 910s hehe

 

[GD70]

How do your neighbors feel about your 910s hehe

Luckily, not a peep! One is 99 years old, deaf as a door nail, neighbors on the other side, their living room and bed room is on the far side of their house.

 

[hunter00]

Weekends here,crank it Glen..Tonight I will be doing the same thing{within reason of course!} and having a bottle or 2 of my home made wine.
Have you had the 910's on the HHscott by the way?Im sure they would make wonderful music together...

Hunter

 

[michigannick]

Before I had the 910s passed on to the new owner, I had them hooked up to a pair of NAD 218s running mono and holy cats it was hard to let them out the door that day. They were a very good mate for those amps, and I had them hooked to a NAD 208 prior to that the big MOSFET amp and yowsa either way

 

[GD70]

Weekends here,crank it Glen..Tonight I will be doing the same thing{within reason of course!} and having a bottle or 2 of my home made wine.
Have you had the 910's on the HHscott by the way?Im sure they would make wonderful music together...

Hunter

Hey Hunter,
Sure did, and I even made a crappy video! They sounded very nice together, but the Scott runs out of steam pretty quickly.
Glenn

 

[GD70]

Weekends here,crank it Glen..Tonight I will be doing the same thing{within reason of course!} and having a bottle or 2 of my home made wine.
Have you had the 910's on the HHscott by the way?Im sure they would make wonderful music together...

Hunter

That sounds like a prefect way to spend a Friday evening to start off the weekend!
I'll have a few cold ones as well!
Cheers!

 

[GD70]

Before I had the 910s passed on to the new owner, I had them hooked up to a pair of NAD 218s running mono and holy cats it was hard to let them out the door that day. They were a very good mate for those amps, and I had them hooked to a NAD 208 prior to that the big MOSFET amp and yowsa either way

Yeah, I bet it was! These are going no where!

 

[johnebravo]

Hey Hunter,
Sure did, and I even made a crappy video! [snip]

Do you like them better than the mystery speakers that you found in the thrift store that are visible in the video? I take it that their origin was never determined . . .

 

[GD70]

Do you like them better than the mystery speakers that you found in the thrift store that are visible in the video? I take it that their origin was never determined . . .

Hmmm, the Angelica's are amazing speakers, I can't say which I like better, each has their strengths. The Angelica's can seriously crank if asked, but the sound stage, dimensionality is uncanny, more so than the 910's. The 910's are bigger sounding, large arena concert hall feeling. Toss up really. And yeah, the Angelica's origins are still a mystery.

 

[hunter00]

Nice clean crisp sound there with the combo glen.I cant help but think seeing those beaut 910's that you realy need the kangaroo legs under them just to get them up off the floor 10 or so inchs.
Dr Gunthers pioneering of ADS transition from Braun links our speakers in heritage terms,the early ADS speakers had Braun drivers in them.My Braun L-1000s had the kangaroo stands originaly but when I first found them unfortunately the owner had lost the pair,ive been wanting to have some made up to original spec.
I'm hooking up the Brauns tonight,havent listened to them in a while.....

hunter

 

[GD70]

Nice clean crisp sound there with the combo glen.I cant help but think seeing those beaut 910's that you realy need the kangaroo legs under them just to get them up off the floor 10 or so inchs.
View attachment 726733View attachment 726736Dr Gunthers pioneering of ADS transition from Braun links our speakers in heritage terms,the early ADS speakers had Braun drivers in them.My Braun L-1000s had the kangaroo stands originaly but when I first found them unfortunately the owner had lost the pair,ive been wanting to have some made up to original spec.
I'm hooking up the Brauns tonight,havent listened to them in a while.....

hunter

Hey Hunter,

I have the stands and they are mounted on them. I had just finished rearranging the cave and had not finalized the set up. I was curious how the 910's would sound with tubes and my A-X9 was with my tech so my first listening sessions were with the Scott.
I've done a little reading on line about Dr Gunther, a real pioneer for sure.
If you can post some pics of those L-1000's, I'm interested in the driver complement compared to the 910's.

Cheers, Glenn

 

[hunter00]

Sure Glen ,They have 13 drivers per cabinet,3 -8 inch woofers along the bottom and share that part of the cabinet with 4 -mids ubove them then in a sealed section ubove in the main cab are 2 compression horns,then on top of the cabinet inside a removeable grill cover are 4 more mids all Omni directional,13 drivers total .....all have rubber butyl surrounds never needing refoam and there were only 100 pairs ever made in W Germany circa 1964....they were made for the Brauns absolutely top shelf L-1000 Studio system some pics includeing the caps that came out when I recapped them originally
they are very efficient and my tube amps drive them effortlessly
deadly sound

 

[hunter00]

ive never had the drivers out,actually these speakers I had in storage for over 5 yr before we sold our house and I moved them into my system with tubes.When I brought them out and decided to recap them it was obvious they had never been opened before.The wima caps were starting to bulge and spit...50 yrs old.
sorry about the pics they were with my old camera .
hunter

 

[GD70]

Hunter, thanks for posting these. Really interesting layout. You have a very rare pair of speakers. How would you compare their sound to the 910's?
BTW, the stands raise the 910's 7.5 inches off the floor even though ADS published 10 inches off the floor in the manual.

 

[hunter00]

When I owned my ADS speakers I didn't have the L-1000's yet but the 810's and the 910's are what got me looking for Early Braun Gear especially their speakers.I was running SS amps /recievers/integrated in those days no tubes.They liked power as you know.Along the line both the 810's and 910's were sold as I went and bought a pair of original AR9's.around that time I happened on an estate sale and scored abunch of gear,the complete L-1000 system was there,amp/preamp .tuner and speakers.
From memory the 910's were dynamite sounding on big power ,but I was becomeing firmly in the Bigger is better camp both in Amps and speakers so the ADS speakers got sold.
As great as the 910's are and the bigger brothers in the line what stands out with the L-1000s is they are just the fullest sounding speaker you could have,huge soundstage ,just complete in all regards ,They remind me sound wise to some of the top JBL multi driver blue faced monitors.
Ive since moved along to single point source vintage 15 inch co/triaxial drivers as my preference but the Big Brauns will never be sold,and if I happen on another pair of 910's id buy them again in a heart beat

hunter

 

[GD70]

Thanks for that description. Since you mention the AR9's, how would you say they compare to the 910's?

 

[hunter00]

bigger cabinet,2 -12 woofers per both side fireing,id say a better imageing speaker and can take huge power,i used to bi amp mine with both a pair of Soundcraftsmen ma-5002's and a pair of Harman Kardon Citation 16A's...they were riden hard and put away wet after many many whisky sessions...they were what used to fuel my Biker parties..lol
I used to run 2 jenszen electrostates on top of the AR9'S to enhance the top end...

hunter

 

[GD70]

Quite a set up. I bet you all had some greati times!

 

[hunter00]

Well Glen you know what they say about good music.."It wash's away from the soul the dust of every day life"
Always believed that...As much as I enjoyed those high powered toys I enjoy my tube amps that much more...and the big vintage FR drivers..

hunter