adante

They’re an absolute flop, that’s why. 

If they weren’t designed by AJ, they would have never been taken seriously at any point.  There is literally nothing special or good about them, even at half off.  

They are unforgiving speakers. A lot of returns and re-sales within the first few months.

At their price points, they offer nothing new. The KEF R3 is a safer purchase.

AJ should focus on improving his under $500 speakers, as that is his talent and that’s where the market is. 

The KEF R3 simply embarrasses the Adante stand mount in a much smaller package and for $500 less.  

Yeah these got a lot of initial hype then fizzled out fast. Never had a chance to hear them.  KEF R3 came along and is very good!

We sell both the KEF and the Adantes.

The Adantes actually sounded quite good when driven by warmer electronics as their top end was a bit peaky. 

Where  they excelled was at deep punchy bass, excellent dynamics, and created a very big sound stage. The Monitors at $2,500.00 were a lot of speaker for not a lot of money.

The flops were the floor standers which were too tall and not that much better sounding than the monitors. 

In terms of the KEF R3 being way better they are different smoother, less punchy with a more focused sound stage.

Given the right electronics and music the Adantes were quite enjoyable

Their issues were the monitors are huge, they required careful matching, and the floor standers are just huge for their size.

They were hard to sell for the price due to the fact that the Adante monitors were not really bookshelf sized loudspeakers so if you really wanted a monitor to sit on a shelf these were just too large.

Overall a decent line but not a standout more applicable to certain listener.

If anyone is interested we have both the monitors and floor standers priced really cheap.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ