ADAM Audio T7V

When I first got these monitors I felt quite bad because I literally couldn't hear the C3 frequency. This was because the sound bouncing on the wall canceled out the sound coming directly from the monitors. I had 4 mattresses lying around so I built a little half cubical around my desk and this made the sound not drop out at important frequencies. Of course the frequency dips in some places but nothing drops out completely.
If there is something I would have wanted it would have been a little more precise settings on the speaker for room treatment. I have it set on max boost on the low frequencies and max decrease on the highs. And I think I would have turned them even more if I had the chance. I guess I just have to treat my room a little more but I am satisfied with the sound now

As a side note I really enjoy not wearing headphones all the time. There is a big difference between headphones and monitors, but in my humble opinion I feel like you can't go wrong with headphones (despite the annoyance of wearing them and not being able to play sound to other people in the room). You might not hear the bass all that well through headphones and you will certainly not feel it but the sound is much more accurate through headphones (if you have good ones). I sort of feel like playing music through my speakers muddies up the sound a bit. The stereo difference is also big and I feel like the monitors brings more warmth and emotion than the very accurate ( and robotic, if you will,) sounding headphones might be doing. It feels like I can pinpoint right where the sound is coming from somewhere between the monitors while in mono and the hardpanned sounds are not as hardpanned! I've been using the DT 770 PRO and i still use them when I want the sound to be more "accurate". If you can afford monitors I would recommend!

A problem I had was the sound of my computer. It isn't loud, but it brings this hiss to listening through monitors that my headphones would have blocked. I sort of solved this issue by strapping my computer to the underside of my standing desk. This mixed with the fact that I have matresses for walls and a matt on the floor makes the computer hard to hear and it is ideal for monitor listening!

Studio monitors are something you really need to listen to, in order to understand which are for you. However, I really trusted what good reviews this monitor received when making this purchase, and I went in blind.

I started years ago with a tiny pair of subzero monitors, upgraded a few years back to the equally small, but more than adequate Presonus E3.5's, and then took the jump straight to these giants. Giant is definitely a term I'm using in relation to what I already own, as they certainly aren't Abbey Road level speakers that could blow me to next week with the SPL, but that's not what I was looking for. I wanted a crisp, clear, pair of monitors with a great frequency range - particularly in the bass - and a relatively flat frequency response. My room is not acoustically treated (yet!) and definitely has a solid abundance of reflections, and I have no sound calibration system either (again, YET!). However, the few controls to adjust the rolloffs on the frequency response of each monitor is a really great feature, and has meant that I can somewhat adjust these monitors to sound pretty good in an untreated, uncalibrated room. The response and clarity that these have is unmatched - FOR THE PRICE.

Given that I got these on Thomann in a bundle with some acoustic foam wedges for under £280, I am thouroughly thrilled. I was ready to drop £350+ on the speakers alone, and instead here I am with enough money to spare that I bought the speaker mounts I wanted too, and still came in under budget! I definitely haven't given them a full run yet, and I'll be intrigued to see how they affect my mixing and mastering when referencing on different devices that my ears are used to, but either way, listening on them is a wonderful feat - the bass is present and clean, the highs are gorgeous and delicate (but not at all fatiguingly sharp - looking at you DT770!) thanks to the Adam ribbon tweeters, and as someone who was convinced about either buying HS7's or KRK's, I am so glad I did a little more searching and found these. I don't think that I could ever go back from Adam Audio now, and if they release a large pair of monitors with their new side bass radiators seen on the D3V's, I may just have to upgrade as they would certainly be the most impressive and fun monitors on the market.

TL;DR - Adam Audio really are the business. Clean, crisp, fun and fantastic even in an untreated/uncalibrated space. For the value - outstanding.

These are some amazing studio monitors for the price I have to say. The sound is very clear and punchy. Low end is tight and sub heavy, highs are crisp and smooth. I have been using these for about a month now and I'm pretty happy with them. The build quality is decent as well. But they do have some things that I really dislike in terms of design itself.

#1: On/off light is on the back, not the front. What's the point of this light if you can't see it? Really annoying that I need to go to the back just to check the status. Many other brands in the same price range have this. It's Just a stupid decision imo.
#2: When turning the volume knob on the monitors it lightly crackles when playing music through them. This is on both units so I'm sure it's the same on all of them.
#3: Back ported bass ports. All Adam's previous models have been front ported, why change now? Their PR rep claims it's to keep costs down? This doesn't make sense because all their previous research and development has been with front ported models. Changing now does not make sense 'to keep costs down'. Their previous 'budget' model the F series had this, so all the PR talk about doing this to keep the cost low is simply not true.
#4: Only one balanced input. An extra TRS input would have been nice. They keep saying this is to keep to cost down, fair enough. But why can a lot of other companies that make models in the same price range do these things but not Adam Audio?

So all in all, great monitors sound wise. But with some ridiculous design decisions for sure. Their previous 'budget' series (F series) had both front ported bass ports and an essential on/off light on the front so it's really stupid they decided to drop these features. I would have
easily paid ¤50 to a ¤100 more for these (imo) essential features.