Originally Posted by Shaggy2039 ➡️

I'm going to copy the impressions that I sent to JBLkid...

"More impressions...I'm going to use the track "Angel" by Massive Attack as my reference here. If you haven't heard it go listen to it on the S3X-H.

The Low End: Tight, controlled yet at the same time HUGE. Kick has WEIGHT and the bass / kick relationship is perfect. Exactly how this song should sound. My Twins could never reproduce that kind insane low end. The low end never overwhelms the track either. Just sounds like it's own space below everything. I have my Adam's on Sound Anchor stands with the tweeter exactly at ear level about 3.8 feet from me btw...

Front to back information: Reverb levels are, in my opinion, almost as important, if not more important then midrange detail. The sidestick in the intro of Angel is dry and mixed right up front and the feedback on the guitars in the background feel like they're actually behind the sidestick. This is how I love to listen to music. Reallly get DEEP into the mix. The Adam's are 3D but not phasey which was always one of the things about the Focal Twins I didn't like. There was zero perspective of front to back like these. Go listen to some 80's stuff on these Adams...The reverb on the snare drum on Arcadia's "Election Day" is bananas. SO LOUD and STEREO. But then you pop on your headphones and you hear it again. I never noticed how pronounced it was until I heard it on the Adams. On the Adam's I can actually discern the percentage of how drenched an instrument is in reverb on full mixes. I've never been able to do that on any other speaker until now. It's mega detailed in this regard.

The top end: Beautiful. The separation of frequencies between different percussion / drums in the top end is just incredible. I can hear a hihat's frequency and it's relationship to a ride cymbal and they sound totally independent of each other. Same with crash cymbals. They're a tad bright / have presence but not fatiguing in any way to my ears. The ribbon tweeters are such a nice change to the Twin's overly metallic / shiny top end that presented high frequencies that no normal playback system (consumer headphones, Sonos, etc) ever has.

Mid range: The mid range is the only thing I can't tell how detailed it is compared to something like the Twins. The Adam's aren't any where near the level of the ATC's here but that's to be expected. The Twins made rock records that sound great (Queens of the Stone Age, etc) sound like SHHIIIIT. I never liked that about them. They always made distorted guitars sound overly distorted in the 3K-5K region. The adams still show that distortion, but it's not as pronounced which I feel is more correct. I don't want my mixes to sound overly soft in the midrange. I want them to have definition.

Any rate - I'm going to actually start mixing on them now. I'm going to pull up a track for my band that I've been having a hard time with on the Twins and see what the Adam's tell me to do with it.

So far I am 99.9% sure these are my next monitors but I have 27 days to decide. It's honestly up between these and the ATC SCM25's but I know for a fact the 25's aren't going to give me this kind of low end information.