Adam T5V Review (Studio Monitor)

[somebodyelse]

Again tell me what shorting them exactly means and I will do it but you seem unwilling to.

'Shorting' here means using a connector that has the signal pin(s) connected to the ground pin to ensure there is zero input. With nothing connected the input is 'floating' - it could pick up interference. In practice this rarely happens for line level inputs like these, so if you can't do it easily it may not be worth the effort. It's more of a problem with high gain inputs like microphones, guitars and phono cartridges.

Since you need this explaining I guess you don't have the equipment to solder your own shorting plugs. You can buy them (https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=rca+shorting+plug for example) or make them with an rca screw terminal adapter by joining both terminals with a bit of wire. It's similar for TRS jacks and XLR connectors - you just need to connect all three terminals to each other.

 

[julitoole]

When you short it to ground there is no floating AC (aka RF) pickup so you are eliminating it being the input to the speaker, which you have not yet done. I'm not talking about mains AC.

Again what exactly(!!!) means shorting it to the ground what has to be done to achieve shorting it to the ground? Like exact steps I dont know what you mean.
You repeat telling me to do something which I allready said I dont know how to do.
Are you unable or unwilling to give proper instructions? So ur theory is that my air is so polluted with rf that the rca or xlr picks it up over the air?

 

[julitoole]

'Shorting' here means using a connector that has the signal pin(s) connected to the ground pin to ensure there is zero input. With nothing connected the input is 'floating' - it could pick up interference. In practice this rarely happens for line level inputs like these, so if you can't do it easily it may not be worth the effort. It's more of a problem with high gain inputs like microphones, guitars and phono cartridges.

Since you need this explaining I guess you don't have the equipment to solder your own shorting plugs. You can buy them (https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=rca+shorting+plug for example) or make them with an rca screw terminal adapter by joining both terminals with a bit of wire. It's similar for TRS jacks and XLR connectors - you just need to connect all three terminals to each other.

Thanks for giving actual advice, will try to do it, but it seems unlikely as I tried 1 speaker in a total different enviroment.
I do not have the equpiment thanks for the link

 

[julitoole]

Thinking of getting these. I have the M-Audio BX5s at the moment which are great, but they omit a horrible low frequency hum and hiss. How are these for idle sound is there any noticeable hiss/hum?

There seems to be a dissonace as you can read in the few previous posts.
As with any equipment I would advice to try to listen to it yourself as personal experince can be very different to one another.
I would say they have a noticeable hiss at close listening situations.
For me poti at 0db marker and 1,75m listening distance I can not disntiguish the hiss from the background noise of my room anymore.
But others claim they are absolutely silent if you are at a few inches of distance.

 

[snoopy30]

Again what exactly(!!!) means shorting it to the ground what has to be done to achieve shorting it to the ground? Like exact steps I dont know what you mean.
You repeat telling me to do something which I allready said I dont know how to do.
Are you unable or unwilling to give proper instructions? So ur theory is that my air is so polluted with rf that the rca or xlr picks it up over the air?

Look, it's very simple.

You don't know where the hiss is coming from.

So you use process of elimination starting with what's easy.

You take a phono (RCA) lead, cut it, twist the bloody wires together and stick it back in.

If the hiss hasn't changed you now know it's at the speaker end.

If it does you know it's your DAC or noise being picked up somewhere along the way.

 

[kekus]

There seems to be a dissonace as you can read in the few previous posts.
As with any equipment I would advice to try to listen to it yourself as personal experince can be very different to one another.
I would say they have a noticeable hiss at close listening situations.
For me poti at 0db marker and 1,75m listening distance I can not disntiguish the hiss from the background noise of my room anymore.
But others claim they are absolutely silent if you are at a few inches of distance.

They hiss for me as well, have them plugged into an AVR receiver RCA pre outs. Set at 0, even with AVR off, they hiss audibly until about 1 meter for me. I listen at bit more than 2 meters so it doesn't bother me.

 

[julitoole]

So used that to try it no change in hiss.
tried to twist them by hand and plugging it in no change in hiss.

This was a cheap rca tho that I didnt need anymore I dont think it matters or does it?
Would try with xlr but dont have a spare xlr around.

 

[julitoole]

They hiss for me as well, have them plugged into an AVR receiver RCA pre outs. Set at 0, even with AVR off, they hiss audibly until about 1 meter for me. I listen at bit more than 2 meters so it doesn't bother me.

Yeah that was my plan too to get more distance to them.

 

[julitoole]

Look, it's very simple.

You don't know where the hiss is coming from.

So you use process of elimination starting with what's easy.

You take a phono (RCA) lead, cut it, twist the bloody wires together and stick it back in.

If the hiss hasn't changed you now know it's at the speaker end.

If it does you know it's your DAC or noise being picked up somewhere along the way.

I know the process of elimination but you werent answereing my points. I used the process of eliimination.
And if you would discuss in good faith you would have seen that as I eliminated a lot of sources until not having the knowledge to do further elimination.
Of course you can gatekeep your knowledge to elevate yourself above others but I would rather get the T5V to be quiet as you say they can be or give other customers the information they need. And for what its worth hold up the reputation of this being a forum with reliable Information and with less bias than any other forum I visited.

 

[uwotm8]

Would try with xlr but dont have a spare xlr around

They hiss no matter what you (do not) plug in in any input.
Just accept it. And don't turn up level knob above 0 - then there's almost no hiss. At +18 (max) it's unbearable.

 

[Wizard509]

They hiss no matter what you (do not) plug in in any input.
Just accept it. And don't turn up level knob above 0 - then there's almost no hiss. At +18 (max) it's unbearable.

The level knobs on mine are halfway between 0 and +18. I am sitting at arms length and have zero hiss.

 

[Hayabusa]

They hiss no matter what you (do not) plug in in any input.
Just accept it. And don't turn up level knob above 0 - then there's almost no hiss. At +18 (max) it's unbearable.

could be xlr gives you 6dB more gain with the same noise floor....

 

[Sebby]

They hiss no matter what you (do not) plug in in any input.
Just accept it. And don't turn up level knob above 0 - then there's almost no hiss. At +18 (max) it's unbearable.

I returned them for that reason. That hiss is really annoying.
Just plug them in to hear it, so it's impossible to eliminate. It's the internal preamplification that's poor...