In reality such crossover dip is audible at 3kHz already at -3dB or so, so at 10-15 degrees vertical angle. And it's right in the most sensitive part of our hearing. That -30dB dip at 3kHz is at just 20-30 degrees. I think it may be a difficult speaker in reality. Thanks so much Amir for measuring this oneįor what it's worth. Or, if you do slouch, then set your stands at slouch height.Īh well. No slouching allowed if you don't want the sound the shift. The worst thing was the vertical directivity. I don't have audiophile friends with really high-end speakers and amateur producers tend to have low-end kit as a fact of life, so maybe I don't have a good reference. In fact it was the best I've heard from any setup. After some moderate treatment using a mix of 12cm to 20cm broadband absorbers and membrane traps on all the walls and ceiling (a lot of you will say this is overkill, but I'd strongly disagree), the imaging and clarity was incredible.
Then, when I had first bought them, they sounded very similar to my old A7s. The best thing about them was the really crisp transient response and imaging, though I couldn't say that initially. Since then I've moved and these speakers haven't seen much use for about a year, partially coinciding with the time I joined ASR. I never suspected shelving because of ADAM's specs and my very small "studio", assuming that whatever I saw when measuring in-room had little to do with their true output. To fix that I listened to them about 20° off-axis. Out of the box they were bothersomely bright and forward. I set them up for nearfield listening, around 1.5m or so away.
#Adam audio s5h frequency response chart serial numbers#
The serial numbers show that they were among the first pairs shipped from ADAM. I paid around $4500 CAD for a pair in 2017 very soon after they came out with a discount from a local dealer.
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