Your year in HiFi and Music – 2012
Yes indeed relocated, glad you like them. As a product, they are apparently very good. For everyone else: other actives are available...some are even hype free. 
My hifi year has been dominated by my purchase of AVI ADM40s.
(I hope this doesn't constitute a hype. 
)
My music year has been all about discovering music on Spotify. I haven't bought a CD since at least July of last year, and I do sometimes wonder whether the Spotify model can sustain the music business long-term (I'm talking mainly classical/jazz here).
Ahhhh, too funny.... 
EDIT: Probably not hype, actives with a DAC've been done before. Roland DS7's I think.
Ooh, I nearly forgot, I went to my first BBC Prom!
Now yer talking (not that ADM40s are shabby by any stretch I'd imagine) - I saw the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the Proms a few years ago; fantastic experience.
Bought myself a second hand Arcam Alpha 9 power amp to go with my Arcam Alpha 9 integrated amp and Alpha 9 CD player. Very pleased indeed!!
Next year I will replace my old floor standers with a pair of EB2's or something.
I haven't purchased any new tunes this year which is unusual as I normally spend a fortune on CD's.
Bought myself a second hand Arcam Alpha 9 power amp to go with my Arcam Alpha 9 integrated amp and Alpha 9 CD player. Very pleased indeed!!
Next year I will replace my old floor standers with a pair of EB2's or something.
I haven't purchased any new tunes this year which is unusual as I normally spend a fortune on CD's.
Nice one! I'd love to have done that for my Alpha 9 integrated. Enjoy
Native,
I'm not sure I understand your comment given that the OP invites us to write about OUR OWN year of HiFi and music.
AVI ADMs are, as you rightly point out, superb speakers and then are even better when taking VFM into account.
My previous experience of speakers [over 40 years] was always as passives so I am perfectly able to tell when something is hugely better than my previous experiences. I also point people in the direction of "actives", not just AVI ADMs.
There are other speakers that I am sure are good at what they do, within their own limits. However, MY YEAR{2012} of HiFi and Music was all about AVI ADMs.
Congratulations on the new active speakers.
I think that for many of the er, 'older' 
members who were around when Linn and Naim were in their heyday, the fully active two or four pack re say Naim 250's x 2 or 135's x 4 coupled to something like SBL's or Isobariks etc was a system that was hideously expensive, but pretty much sat at the top of the respective brands performance tree - and still does - albeit they're still using separate add on outboard amps instead of being built into the speaker at the outset - arguably a much better way to engineer actives and keep costs to sensible levels.
So I think it fair to say that most experienced HiFi owners are aware of the advantages of active, and it's not a new or unique concept.
Personally, I've owned a pair of SBL's from new, and if it hadn't been for AV coming along, would almost certainly have ended up spending the money to go active - it's that good.
Speaking as a new member here, my impression garnered from reading, is that the only time AVI gets any flack, is when there are unsubstantiated claims about them being the best speaker bar none, being thrown about.
As one who lived through the whole flat earth/PRaT mantra, where as the advert went - "your'e nobody without a Naim" - that sort of marketing hype that the Linn Naim marketing machine indulged in used to grate with and offend a great many people - hence the flack that AVI attracts when it seems to indulge in similar marketing tactics IMHO.
However, the marketing and the products are two completely different things, and I'm sure they're a superb product, so again congratulations and enjoy!
JMac 
2012 was a good year for me on the hi-fi front. It was the year that I discovered active speakers and they enabled me to break the cycle of upgradeitis/escalating obsessiveness/spending lots of money on hifi. Also stopped my magazine subsriptions and going on the forums, to keep myself out of temptations way, although I do have the occasional browse and this seemed like a good thread to temporarily come out of retirement for.
I went from having both Naim-based stereo and full surround sound systems, to the simple system that you see in my signature. It sounds better now than it ever did before (with quality more than making up for quantity on the movie front) and the money I had left over after selling all the old kit and buying the ADM40s, paid for our honeymoon and a new camera.
Definitely happier just enjoying the music and not thinking about 'the system', or obsessing over any arcane concepts of tweakery or pseudo-science.
Not the right route for everyone, but definitely good for me!
Dan
Native,
I'm not sure I understand your comment given that the OP invites us to write about OUR OWN year of HiFi and music.
AVI ADMs are, as you rightly point out, superb speakers and then are even better when taking VFM into account.
My previous experience of speakers [over 40 years] was always as passives so I am perfectly able to tell when something is hugely better than my previous experiences. I also point people in the direction of "actives", not just AVI ADMs.
There are other speakers that I am sure are good at what they do, within their own limits. However, MY YEAR{2012} of HiFi and Music was all about AVI ADMs.
Congratulations on the new active speakers.
I think that for many of the er, 'older' members who were around when Linn and Naim were in their heyday, the fully active two or four pack re say Naim 250's x 2 or 135's x 4 coupled to something like SBL's or Isobariks etc was a system that was hideously expensive, but pretty much sat at the top of the respective brands performance tree - and still does - albeit they're still using separate add on outboard amps instead of being built into the speaker at the outset - arguably a much better way to engineer actives and keep costs to sensible levels.
So I think it fair to say that most experienced HiFi owners are aware of the advantages of active, and it's not a new or unique concept.
Personally, I've owned a pair of SBL's from new, and if it hadn't been for AV coming along, would almost certainly have ended up spending the money to go active - it's that good.
Speaking as a new member here, my impression garnered from reading, is that the only time AVI gets any flack, is when there are unsubstantiated claims about them being the best speaker bar none, being thrown about.
As one who lived through the whole flat earth/PRaT mantra, where as the advert went - "your'e nobody without a Naim" - that sort of marketing hype that the Linn Naim marketing machine indulged in used to grate with and offend a great many people - hence the flack that AVI attracts when it seems to indulge in similar marketing tactics IMHO.
However, the marketing and the products are two completely different things, and I'm sure they're a superb product, so again congratulations and enjoy!
JMac
Thanks very much JMac.
It is a strange thing this alleged 'hype' with AVI speakers. As far as I know AVI do not do any advertising but obviously the manufacturers do speak of and praise their own product on their own website. To not do so would be bizarre in the extreme. Therefore the 'hype' is overwhelmingly from owners of AVI speakers. People who have spent their hard earned on something that they are so pleased with and so amazed by that they take the time to advise others of their good fortune and to, maybe, let others know about something they could well never come across.[ Despite your knowledge of Linn/Naim actives this all passed me by, now doubt due due to my dismissal of Linn because of the IMO con of their LP12]
I don't know what you have read with regard to AVI being regarded as THE BEST speakers, I only know that I have never read that on here. I have read that people regard them as THE BEST VFM speakers, indeed I believe that WHF asked whether the AVI ADM 9Ts were not the best vfm speakers available. [I haven't checked but that is my recollection].
AVI owners do not get the kicking they used to get when I first started viewing here and then joined. Some well regarded 'passive' and 'tweaking' members have gone over to AVI this year and their posting here has soothed the bile of some contributors who are anti-active and anti-AVI.
My pair of AVI ADM 9Ts cost £1075 and are the best thing in hifi that I have EVER purchased and I have gone through some gear[ and experienced much more] in 40 years. I have never listened to music more than I do now and miles of cabling, boxes etc are consigned to the attic or given away to friends etc. I have also stopped tweaking and listening more to the system than to the music.
We AVI owners do rub some people up the wrong way for reasons best known to themselves but what we say only comes from experience and not malice.
Whatever you own and use I trust that your system pleases you and yours as much as mine does me and mine.
I think the problem isn't with Active speakers but with the tone of many of those who post about them. This thread has been rather hijacked!
Chris
Yes, but who did the hijacking ?
Its a great topic for a thread, and it started with people genuinely posting about their own year. Some of these (myself included) happened to mention AVI, so what. It was then that the anti AVI bunch started
re the hype ? I'd never heard of them until reading reading some of the rubbish on here. It was that, that drove me to audition them. So thanks for that
Yes indeed relocated, glad you like them. As a product, they are apparently very good. For everyone else: other actives are available...some are even hype free.
Other actives are indeed available 'record', which is probably why I wrote, "If you have never tried actives give them a go".
When on earth, are you [and others] going to get over this 'hyped' thing? AVI owners writing about the satisfaction of owning and listening to AVI ADM speakers is not 'hyping'. I really thought that contributors on here had made a major move forward in sensible debate and being grown up. Sadly there are always exceptions that serve those people badly.
Enjoy your system and music. Tannoys were my greatest love [15" Berkeleys] before AVI ADM 9Ts. 
Maybe we could talk about a topic linked directly to th OP's topic?
Discovered some great new music this year, which has served to broaden my horizons, which is always a good thing. Spotify and sonos has helped me there, I am still not listening to enough music though and thats what I would like to improve upon next year. Having introduced a pair of B&W CM8's to the party, I had initially enjoyed the presentation, however between them, the roksan L3 and the cyrus cd8se, I think there is something lacking, Im not feeling the love. The cyrus was an impulse buy from ebay, where do i go now.
The best buy of the year was Celebration Day by Led Zep, but it brought to the surface the annoyance that I missed out on the gig after submitting 51 emails for a ticket.
Looking forward to 2013 and the remastered Zep albums.
Native,
I'm not sure I understand your comment given that the OP invites us to write about OUR OWN year of HiFi and music.
AVI ADMs are, as you rightly point out, superb speakers and then are even better when taking VFM into account.
My previous experience of speakers [over 40 years] was always as passives so I am perfectly able to tell when something is hugely better than my previous experiences. I also point people in the direction of "actives", not just AVI ADMs.
There are other speakers that I am sure are good at what they do, within their own limits. However, MY YEAR{2012} of HiFi and Music was all about AVI ADMs.
Apple Lossless - ATV3 - AVI ADM 40 or Marantz CD50SE (modded] - AVI ADM 40
also ATV3 into AVI ADM 9T [my wife's system] and Grado SR80i