Heard the Abbingdon Music research CD player?

In at least some ways, the AMR stuff was some of the best I heard at CES. That was on Tuesday night. By Wednesday morning they had swapped out the Virtual Dynamics cabling and installed the AMR cabling and the system took a serious step downward. Nevertheless, we heard what it was capable of.

In fact, my colleague was using a Natalie Merchant recorded live cd to evaluate speakers/systems throughout CES and The Show. This particular test track contains an extremely difficult passage to reproduce without some type of dynamic flattening or breakup in the tweeter.

The AMR speaker was the only one of the 50 or so rooms we auditioned that passed with flying colors. Not only did it pass, but that complex passage soared to new heights cleanly and dynamically via the AMR system.

The Ascendo speakers came in 2nd. All other systems we heard failed to one good degree or another.

I'm keeping my eye out for the release of their prototype speakers they exhibited.

Overall, I thought their gear was intriguing and first rate sonically.

-IMO

Dazzdax, you are correct. But apparently Jaybo had something to prove.

Dazz, I don't think the AMR system was like any of the ones you mentioned. My initial post way above mentioned how this system (it was all AMR but with Virtual Dynamics cabling) and it soared like no other we listened to. See above for a few more details.

-IMO

Ndeslions, now that's hard to believe. But only because the UX3SE is such a phenomenal unit.

I heard the ARM setup at CES and thought in some ways the system was among the very best at the show and in other ways the very best.

But it also was impossible to distinquish the cdp's performance from the rest of the system at CES. And they had some great sounding prototype all-aluminum speakers.

I'd be interested to hear more after the unit has burned in after 50 - 300 hours.

-IMO