Originally posted by 1ctabor
I actually still have a set of ada880's. For their time they were nice speakers, huge subwoofer but to todays standards not even close. The 4 channel that they use doesn't even throw the sound right.
As do I, yeah for the time the sub hit with vengence, especially if you had it in a corner, Ohh boy for MM speakers they could pound. Now they are getting killed in both range, power and pure SPL, i think the whole set came in at 80w.

]Originally posted by blppt

Yeah, before they reworked the crossover points and the preamp, the Promedia 4.1 was known as the v.2-400. Supposedly less hiss and better midbass extension were the improvements. I had no idea the ADA880 was out that early, so that is a good point. However, i've heard a set of ADA885s (which are supposedly similar speaks with THX certification) that some kid down the hall from me got with his ultra-expensive Dell. Although the imaging of the sats were nice, the sub was weak especially considering the size of the driver (8" like my 560s), so unless the 880s were significantly better, i wouldnt call them competitive with the PM4.1/v.2-400. Either that or there was some EQ settings i couldnt find on his comp that was messing with the sound. ;-)
Basically the 880s only claim to fame was its price (around $200), and the fact that it pushed an 8" with that neat little 2.1 > 4.1 converatbility, a remote, S/P DIF connectivity, and a built in PL decoder. Which was a list to gwak at, at the time.
Yeah saddly the 885s where really here nor there, they were only a marginal improvement then 880s, and vastly inferior to the 890's (twas rather neat, my freshman year I inherited 880s from my suitemate, he bought 890s and my roomate had 885s. So we had them all in one part of the hall, during suite parties we would all sync our playlists and crank.)