Adam T5V Review (Studio Monitor)

[Sedaxel]

Hi there, mates. This is my first post. I've been reading reviews and whatnot and it's been very illustrative. Thank you all for sharing your knowledge.

I have a doubt about these T5V. The preference score is well below the JBL 305P mkII or the Pioneer DJ VM-50. But the conclusions of the review are somehow suggesting it's maybe better than those.

I've also read here and there that the hiss in these monitors is very loud for near field uses.

So, now that I'm thinking on (maybe) buying a budget pair of monitors, my mind is a mess. I don't know if it's better value to go the JBL way, or the Adam, or even some M-Audio I've been reading about too, or the Pioneer...

Should I not pay too much attention to the preference score?

 

[staticV3]

Should I not pay too much attention to the preference score?

Preference score only rates frequency response and directivity, and ignores all other parameters like distortion, headroom, impulse response etc.

Additionally, preference score differences that are less than 1.0 are basically meaningless.

Use the preference score as a very rough guideline to see which speakers are well tuned (>4.0) and which are not (<3.0).

Before you make a decision though, look at the actual measurements in detail.

Adam has slightly worse on-axis response than JBL, but their woofers are much more competent and can play louder with less distortion.

If you have access to EQ/PEQ in your system, then on-axis frequency response becomes much less important as that can be easily corrected.

Other parameters like directivity, distortion, bass extension take priority then.

 

[Volutrik]

Other parameters like directivity, distortion, bass extension take priority then.

Also how the speaker compresses when driven at the different SPL levels. Unfortunately amirm doesn't provide compression graphs, though.