Though I had looked at the company's website earlier this year, and seen signs of renewed life(a few new products), I am disappointed to discover that the noted power amplifier manufacturer ADCOM is defunct, and worse yet, that some dealers who still have sealed ADCOM power amps are scalping them beyond their intended price.
I have been using ADCOM power amps in my home entertainment system for the past 21 years(I presently own a GFA-7700 5 x 175w power amp[from 2003] which i use in conjunction with an Integra DHC 9.9 A/V processor).
From approximately 2008 to 2011, the company had been in limbo through several ownership changes, and during this time they were frozen, unable to introduce any new products. While the company's power amplifiers were sturdy, solid, timeless products, the company was stuck offering an embarrassingly obsolete HDMI 1.1 or 1.2 A/V processor which lacked the facilities to decode the surround sound audio from Blu-Ray discs. Eventually, the company realized that no one was going to buy this obsolete paperweight, ADCOM got out of the A/V processor business altogether, essentially sending a message to the public that said "Buy our power amplifiers, but pair them with someone else's A/V processor"....so that's what I did. When I changed over to HDTV in 2009, I bought an up to date Integra DHC- 9.9 A/V processor. A smarter move would have been for ADCOM to hire an OEM factory to produce a modern A/V processor and put the ADCOM name on it, so that ADCOM could stay in the game.
Worse yet, ADCOM devoted a section of its website to denouncing a long list of unauthorized retail & internet dealers. But the reality is that many of those unauthorized dealers were quite established and reputable, and the unauthorized dealers had become the majority of ADCOM dealers, and were moving the majority of ADCOM product. When ADCOM was in limbo for years, unable to introduce any new products, ADCOM should have welcomed some of the more established "unauthorized" dealers on board. They could have helped keep ADCOM afloat during long years of corporate limbo when the company couldn't introduce new products.
My GFA-7700 has provided 9 years of excellent service, though I had a brief scare a few nights ago during bad weather conditions. I was playing the unit at a very moderate volume level, and the protection circuit kicked in and shut down the right rear channel. Eventually, by unplugging from electricity, and plugging the unit in again, the unit reset and has worked fine since them. There may have been a voltage spike or fluctuation.
I know that the GFA-7700 won't last forever, and that some day it won't be repairable. While there are certainly many other companies making cleaner, more refined sounding power amps, few have provided as much watts for dollars value as ADCOM. They'll be missed.