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  1. This is a pretty late response but speakers I have owned in this genre: ADS L500, L7e, L700 (L710 early version), L880, L1590 and a pair of Canton Karat 300's. I prefer the Karats to all of the ADS bookshelf speakers and performed A/B comparisons. Granted this is to MY ears, the opinions of others may differ and are valid. 1. Canton is more efficient. 2. Canton has more 'air' and sparkle without being harsh. 3. Despite being brighter the tweeter has less glare/grit than a hair, it's extremely smooth. That's one guy's take on it.
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    ADS L1590

    Tom thank you so much for the great and lengthy response! I hadn't checked for a few weeks so I apologize for the late response on my part. It's getting late but I did open up and look at the crossover as much as I could (it's sandwiched together and it looks like it would be very tough to get it into two pieces without desoldering the binding post leads from the PCB) and noticed what I thought to be quite a few NPE caps. When I get a few more cycles I'll reply at length. John
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    ADS L1590

    Tom, I also have an ADS L1590 newly purchased and a set of AR9's. In my opinion so far they seem to be similar in sound and performance with a tad more bass going to the AR9's and a tad more tightness in bass going to the L1590's. However, the L1590's are INFINITELY easier to drive. It's made me consider (and I never ever thought I would say this) selling the AR9's. Have you had similar thoughts? I haven't A/B'd them and put them through the paces due to time constrains but perhaps you have. Also, does anyone here have a crossover schematic for an L1590/2 and know whether or not there is any gain to recapping these? I have been told that ADS used a lot of poly caps in their xover but I'm not sure how pervasive that was and whether or not an upgrade to some modern film caps for the tweets/mids might give me some palpable gain. Thanks, McCarty350
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