daveh75 said:
altruistic.lemon said:
davedotco said:
The Artist 3 and 5 models are a fairly expensive way of buying entry level Adam monitors. You are paying a substantial premium for the look and finish and for the onboard usb dac. If the looks and/or the dac are important to you then fair enough, but if not the 'pro' A3x and A5x offer similar performance for less money.
Unlike Al in the earlier post, I think that such speakers are more than a match for coventional passive components at this price level, but then I am an active speaker user and Al is not, make of that what you will.
Um - as I said, the website says different.
The website refers to the older non x models not the AXs DDC is referring to, which funnily enough have the same X-Art tweeters as the Artists..
There are some suggestions in some quarters that the Artist series offer a slightly more relaxed presentation than the A series, if this is true then it is not something that I have noticed, though I have not done a direct comparison.
For this reason I chose the word similar, which apparantly means 'the same as' in some language or another, though not of course in English.
For what it is worth, the later 'x' models have been recieved well in the 'pro' area, generally considered to be a little more refined than their predecessors. I usually have a problem with any of the variants of the 'Air Motion Transformer' style of folded diaphragm tweeters but recent Adam designs have pretty much solved this problem for me.
For desktop use I think a small bass driver is sufficient if you are to avoid over doing the bass end. I have recently been trying the A3x as an upgrade to my Seiwins and they are superb on the desktop, particularly when used with the rubber wedge style stands. I f you wanr something to run directly off a computer the Artist 3 may be the answer, but if like me, you prefer an outboard dac the A3x is the better value.