TIMELESS EMOTION
This Diapason timeless and iconic design has been continuously updated since the first model was introduced into the market, back in 1989: the characteristic multi-faceted shape – reminiscent of a diamond – hence the inspiration for the name of this creation, Adamantes, is designed for optimal management of cabinet diffractions, allowing for a coherent sound dispersion pattern and for the recreation of a 3D soundstage. Those speakers disappear from the listener’s perception, providing the sense of instruments and voices exact position during the performance and the feeling that it is almost possible to ‘touch’ them. It’s about extracting the deepest emotions from your favourite music reproduction. The ‘Monitor’ version takes advantage of a thoroughly designed x-over network which drastically reduces the overall distortions.

A MASTERPIECE
The cabinet has been carefully designed, dimensioned and tuned, maximizing the extension in the lowest frequencies, and realized in solid wood, such as ‘Canaletto walnut’ which is ideal for sound reproduction. A unique, handcrafted creation that have been professionally cut, sanded and varnished can only transpire from the able hands of woodworking experts, who have drawn their wisdom from Italian cabinetmaking tradition.

A SYMPHONY OF MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY
High quality components, make Adamantes V a true sound reproduction instrument, faithful to Diapason’s studio monitor heritage. A 170 mm mid-woofer developed in conjunction with the Norwegian SEAS, according to our strict specifications, combined with a customized 19 mm sonomex soft dome wide surround tweeter, enable a rich, detailed and articulated music reproduction.

DEDICATED STAND
The 2/A stand, available in solid ‘Canaletto walnut’ or black painted HDF, combined with a finely brushed silver anodized aluminum base, measuring 75 cm in height, has been designed for the ideal positioning of Adamantes V Monitor.

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Cutting corners in loudspeaker design rarely works, which is why Diapason use only properly cured walnut, a process which takes time (over 20 years, in fact) but then means that the timber has a better resonant behaviour than many [cheaper] woods because it retains less moisture. That cabinet design, with it sixteen surfaces, minimises edge diffraction and improves point-source behaviour.

Conclusion
The Adamantes V is most certainly a thing of beauty and a joy. It upholds the sentiment of Keats’ writing because “its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness”. But a loudspeaker has to be more than a box to enhance the aesthetics of a listening room. It needs to be a competent transducer to convey the recording to the listener in a convincing and entirely believable manner. This design clearly achieves that as well. The price is high, not helped by exchange rates – but, if one demands hand-crafted quality then that comes at a price. Cheap, plastic snap-together boxes are available from other sources for those not interested in aesthetics or true craftsmanship. There is, I would venture to suggest, too little attention to beauty in audio equipment today. Forsaking such elegance is a loss to us all. Thank goodness for Diapason in this regard.

Here we have a drop-dead gorgeous loudspeaker with tremendous poise and high levels of accuracy and where the music flows effortlessly and naturally. It brings home the ambience and detail of even the most complex recordings in a joyous and musical manner which makes for hours of immensely satisfying listening across a wide range of musical styles.

Type: Bookshelf/Standmount 2 way, 2 speakers

Acoustical Loading: Bass-Reflex, Rear emission port

Cabinet:  Solid walnut wood construction. Engraved multifaceted front and rear baffles for optimal diffractions management. Water based natural finish.

Drivers/Internal Wiring: Tweeter: 19 mm silk soft Sonomex dome, wide surround, high definition Fe magnet

Mid-woofer: 170 mm polymetylpentene cone, Fe magnet.

Van den Hul CS12 Halogen Free

Crossover Frequency: 2500 Hz

Frequency Response: 45 Hz – 25,000 Hz

Sensivity (2,83 V @1m): 90 dBSPL

Nominal Impedence: 6 ohm