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I have tow sets od these. One is a small bookshelf unit and the other is a floor standing one. To my ears, they sound fantastic, with a New England type theme but with a better sound satge. I drive them through a Yamaha CR-820 receiver. Am I the only one who likes these speakers?
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Ah. yes. I don't know what ADC was up to by the '80s, or what if any connection it still had with the ADC that produced the phenominal ADC-1 cartridge and wooden Pritchard tone arm. I got my brother a pair of 303s, which I remember as sounding outstanding for the money-could the year have been around 1966, Brian? ADC also marketed 2 unusual 2-way floor standers, which, like the wooden arm, may have been designed by Pritchard. The speakers' salient design feature was a flat, rectangular woofer made of polystyrene or some other expanded plastic foam. The material technology may have been related to the KEF B139 and IMF woofers of the day. The larger of the 2 ADC models had a radiating area that took up most of the speaker's frontal aspect, and produced a smooth and detailed sound with very deep bass. With a list price of around $300 apiece, however, they were up against some stiff competition from companies with much bigger budgets for marketing and advertising. I remember their intelligently written 1/4-page black-and-white ads in the back of High Fidelity and Stereo Review.
In the early 60s ADC used the new KEF drivers in their own cabinets. The top of the line cost a rousing $250 a pair and was a 2 way with T15 2 " plastic dome and B1814 woofer which was a larger B139 approximately 18" by 14".
By the 80's, Pritchard had moved to another company, Sonus, and the ADC name floated from owner to owner. I think there are still speakers (and other stuff) being offered under the name.The earliest ADC speakers (mid-60's) borrowed KEF drivers but later moved to local drivers. I have the specs in the old files.
I have some ADC SoundImage speakers - set of 4, that appear to be early surround-sound home theater speakers. They aren't hooked up right now but when they were, they sounded great - sparkly and full.They were made in US (80s?) and had 2 larger 3-way and 2 smaller one's - all with a dipole tweeter, in a trapezoidal shape. I have never seen them anywhere else. Has anyone had these?
ADC made some really nice speakers, most notably the 303. Cabinets and drivers were both very good. The company was so well known for cartridges that were sold without big ad budgets that it was weak in marketing the speakers. For dealers, it was a well known secret they were good but hard to figure into the product mix except in systems when the dealer who used then as the anchor and then offered their main line units as step ups in the system.
I remember not only the 303 - which was an excellent
all round speaker- but its little brother the 404
which borrowed from- the Goodmans line and seemed to be
the start of the big sound - small box /mini monitor trend
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