adante

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

Raviker, if you referer to our post above we have listed the issues with the line, 

We agree with you that the speakers sounded quite good especially when used with warmer electronics, Naim, Parasound etc.

The issue is the monitors are huge, and can not fit on an actual bookshelf, and the floorstanders were really not that much better than the monitors. 

The real white elephant is shipping with increased tariffs from China a very heavy and bulky product that has the above listed issues and the reason for discontinuing the product makes sense.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Elac dealers

Actually Wildfoxinn, we also defend the Personas which have no more of a wacky frequency response vs any other major high end loudspeakers,

We have been looking at many highly lauded loudspeakers and many of them have dipped high frequency responses. So it seems that many audiophiles get activated when the top end of a loudspeaker has some rises at certain frequencies but are totally okay when other loudspeakers are dipped down and therefore have a "recessed or polite" top end. 

Most loudspeakers have either a rising top end or a recessed top end, very few loudspeakers are actually flat.  The real key is system matching. 

We have the Personas and the Adantes and the Kef's on display, as well as ATC and many other loudspeakers.

We don't agree with Contuzzi that the Adantes aren't good loudspeakers yes they do have a bit of a peak in their high end response but with the right warmer electronics they also sound very good.

We have demoed the Adantes vs many of the best $2-2,500.00 monitors and they are in some ways quite remarkable, especially in their deep bass response.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ ATC, Kef, Paradigm, Elac, dealers