![]() Finally, a small blanked-off panel conceals the promise of a forthcoming network option. The rear panel carries the monitor’s connectors - a balanced XLR analogue audio input, two XLRs for AES3 digital audio and loop-through, plus a USB socket that gives the user remote control of the S3V’s onboard DSP via ADAM’s free S Control software. Aerodynamically, the cabinet’s front-ported bass reflex system has been redesigned to reduce air friction and turbulence, whilst its twin ports now incorporate additional anti-resonance technology in order to minimise coloration. The S3V’s weighty, all-black enclosure incorporates mounting points and is constructed from a vibration-resistant material to reduce resonance and coloration, with large-radius edges employed to minimise edge‑-diffraction effects. Physically, the S3V is quite an imposing object, being 536mm tall and weighing in at 25kg. The S3V is a three-way, vertically oriented studio monitor designed primarily for midfield applications (which implies a sizable listening space), although ADAM do state that it can be used successfully in more compact environments. This third-generation S Series consists of five models - one two-way and four three-way speakers - three of which (the two-way S2V, the S3V reviewed here and the S5V) are designed to stand upright in the vertical plane, whilst the remaining two (the S3H and S5H) recline horizontally. ![]() Never a company to rest on their laurels, ADAM Audio have continued to develop their products and the latest iteration of the X‑ART tweeter, the S‑ART, now makes its debut in the company’s newly redesigned S Series range of active studio monitors. ADAM Audio’s monitors and their success have been built around the company’s proprietary X‑ART (eXtended Accelerating Ribbon Technology) folded-ribbon tweeter, itself a further development of the Air Motion Transformer invented in the 1960s by Oskar Heil. Germany’s ADAM Audio, founded in 1999, will be more than familiar to regular readers of SOS, as several of the company’s products have taken top spot in the Studio Monitor category of the annual SOS Awards in five of the last seven years. ![]() We try out the mighty midfield three-way S3V. ADAM’s new S Series is packed with DSP, and incorporates all-new driver designs. ![]()
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