Personally, if you’ve felt the high frequency ribbon tech was a bit harsh to your ears, I wouldn’t mess with Adam. I know a lot of people really appreciate their speakers and specifically that ribbon design, me personally i find it super harsh and fatiguing. Everyone hears differently, so I know this is personal, just mentioning this because you wrote earlier that you found the highs harsh/fatiguing. I’d say trust that.
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well, tbh i haven’t had difficulty with them during my 8 years of a7x use. BUT! I wasn’t as aware of my body/hearing back then and I can imagine there being some better options for my ears.
After getting tinnitus/panic attack in my early 20’s. I did always tend to mix darker on the adam’s
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LOVE the textures in this! Well done! (And not dark at all to my ears!)
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Thanks you so much for the kind words:)
Btw, I did and extensive listening session with a friend of mine this week. He bought Lyd 48’s and wanted to test them against a77h in the shop.
We tested, A77H, Lyd 48, A7V, Kh120, KH310, Kali in8 and a few other monitors they had set up. But we mostly listened to these. I was underwhelmed by the A77H, so much bass! I had to turn the bass down which made them a bit better. A7v’s sounded good, but both Adams sounded too “forced” and did not let enough air/space in the mix. The lyd48’s were my favourite even though I found them a bit bright or harsh I feel I could listen to them all day. The kh120’s were again stunning, I’d like a pair in the future as reference monitors. The Kali’s were a bit mellow, modest even they did not excite me that much. However they did manage to translate the entire spectrum. The highs seems a bit swallowed, which would actually be a bonus as I always mix my high to low and my lows to loud. What I found most interesting is that my tunes sounded best on 2 way monitors, once you played them on 3 way monitors my subs were all flappy and over the place.
I bought 2 b-stock kali’s, one without box and one with a scratch for a total of 560,- euro including some weird insurance I got with lets me test them 60 days instead of 30.
AS I’m starting my studio from scratch I think the Kali’s with a quality headphone will be more than enough to get me started in the new space, from there I can slowly take my time to upgrade and try out which monitors work best for me in the coming years.
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