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ADS-910's

These are original replacement parts from ADS he had in him parts dept. He sold ADS, macintosh, yamaha, ect. Also a warranty station as well. Will find out if just 910 or others.
 
2chman said:
These are original replacement parts from ADS he had in him parts dept. He sold ADS, macintosh, yamaha, ect. Also a warranty station as well. Will find out if just 910 or others.
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Pretty cool! Did he say if he has any other ADS parts, documentation, etc...?
 
I will check. But to the question " what are they worth" is it worth him putting up for sale? He is getting up there and I'm trying to get him to move out a lot of stuff he has kept (parts) he has (prob boxes of it) . All mint original OEM stuff.
 
2chman said:
I will check. But to the question " what are they worth" is it worth him putting up for sale? He is getting up there and I'm trying to get him to move out a lot of stuff he has kept (parts) he has (prob boxes of it) . All mint original OEM stuff.
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Maybe 30-40 bucks per pair?
I'd sure love to know what other ADS parts he still has.
Glenn
 
GD70 said:
Very nice and with the stands, and very early serial numbers! Do you know their history and any paper work?
Do you plan to have both pairs in the same space? That would sound epic!
Please post pics once you have them. Seems the more photo documentation on the 910 the better.
Also noted the badges are missing. Did the seller still have them?
Congrats!
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Sorry I don't have much history on them, since I only corresponded with the seller through email. He did say that he bought them in 2011 from a dealer who had purchased them from the estate of a collector in Washington state. The collector had bought them from Hawthorne Stereo in Seattle. I don't know if the collector purchase was the original sale or a resale. (Someone who knows Hawthorne Stereo might be able to answer if they were an ADS Dealer or a reseller.) The seller said they were in original condition and he had made no changes or updates to the speakers. He said he had bought a pair of B&Ws and needed to make room for them.

The badges are missing and there were no documents. I'm going to guess that any original documents probably left the speakers with the estate sale. I'll follow along with the badge re-issue update thread and I'm happy to join in on any group purchases.

I hadn't thought about running all 4 910s at the same time. I could, since I use a rebuilt and opamp updated Bose 4401 as my preamp, which is 4 channels (I don't use the Quad decoder, no quad sources, but you could run stereo front and rear.) . I guess it would go source to preamp, out to my two matching amps XL 600 or 9500 and then to the speakers. There'd be wires and speakers everywhere along with a divorce. I'd have a lot more time with my vintage audio collection but it might get a little lonely.
 
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Commodore999 said:
Sorry I don't have much history on them, since I only corresponded with the seller through email. He did say that he bought them in 2011 from a dealer who had purchased them from the estate of a collector in Washington state. The collector had bought them from Hawthorne Stereo in Seattle. I don't know if the collector purchase was the original sale or a resale. (Someone who knows Hawthorne Stereo might be able to answer if they were an ADS Dealer or a reseller.) The seller said they were in original condition and he had made no changes or updates to the speakers. He said he had bought a pair of B&Ws and needed to make room for them.

The badges are missing and there were no documents. I'm going to guess that any original documents probably left the speakers with the estate sale. I'll follow along with the badge re-issue update thread and I'm happy to join in on any group purchases.

I hadn't thought about running all 4 910s at the same time. I could, since I use a rebuilt and opamp updated Bose 4401 as my preamp, which is 4 channels (I don't use the Quad decoder, no quad sources, but you could run stereo front and rear.) . I guess it would go source to preamp, out to my two matching amps XL 600 or 9500 and then to the speakers. There'd be wires and speakers everywhere along with a divorce. I'd have a lot more time with my vintage audio collection but it might get a little lonely.
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Well, it seems you have some of their history at least. Better than nothing! Looks like you're the 4th owner.
Maybe your wife will allow you to test all 4 playing for a short time?

I think there were a couple sets of the plastic badges, but can't say if all were spoken for.
Anyway, awesome that you have two sets of 910's!
 
Two sets of 910's.... isn't that a violation of some kind? I mean "one guy" two sets 910's??????? Something wrong with that! I'm "one guy" with none! Hmmmmmm
 
My friend says two sets of 910's stacked were the closest thing to his 2030's, so its worth a try...

Speaking of 2030's, there's a set for sale in Nashville right now. They only made 100 pairs of them, so its super rare to see a set for sale:

https://nashville.craigslist.org/ele/5857041572.html

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GD70 said:
Well, it seems you have some of their history at least. Better than nothing! Looks like you're the 4th owner.
Maybe your wife will allow you to test all 4 playing for a short time?

I think there were a couple sets of the plastic badges, but can't say if all were spoken for.
Anyway, awesome that you have two sets of 910's!
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She would. And I'll see if I can try it. But even though my listening area is large and fairly open, I think it would be too much.

Thanks, but I don't think I'll keep 2 sets. I'll check with friends and family members to see if there's an interest. Keeping more than one set of these speakers seems like hoarding. I like having different speakers to rotate through but once I have a pair, I don't really need a second set. The purchase was more of an opportunity that came up as I was looking for a pair of 1590s.
 
GD70 said:
Well, it seems you have some of their history at least. Better than nothing! Looks like you're the 4th owner.
Maybe your wife will allow you to test all 4 playing for a short time?

I think there were a couple sets of the plastic badges, but can't say if all were spoken for.
Anyway, awesome that you have two sets of 910's!
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She would. And I'll see if I can try it. But even though my listening area is large and fairly open, I think it would be too much.

Thanks, but I don't think I'll keep 2 sets. I'll check with friends and family members to see if there's an interest. Keeping more than one set of these speakers seems like hoarding. I like having different speakers to rotate through but once I have a pair, I don't really need a second set. The purchase was more of an opportunity that came up as I was looking for a pair of 1590s.
 
Commodore999 said:
She would. And I'll see if I can try it. But even though my listening area is large and fairly open, I think it would be too much.

Thanks, but I don't think I'll keep 2 sets. I'll check with friends and family members to see if there's an interest. Keeping more than one set of these speakers seems like hoarding. I like having different speakers to rotate through but once I have a pair, I don't really need a second set. The purchase was more of an opportunity that came up as I was looking for a pair of 1590s.
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Yeah, I hear ya, but try it at least once! Not too often one gets an opportunity like this.
I'm also interested to see if both sound exactly the same.
 
egesledder said:
My friend says two sets of 910's stacked were the closest thing to his 2030's, so its worth a try...

Speaking of 2030's, there's a set for sale in Nashville right now. They only made 100 pairs of them, so its super rare to see a set for sale:

https://nashville.craigslist.org/ele/5857041572.html

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I'd love to own a pair. But I doubt I could get them past my wife. And the $2750 cost of ownership is too much for me.

Great photos of the speakers. The best is the one in the pickup truck.
 
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