Adam Audio A7V Reference Monitors Review

Our sound and lighting courses can be found at https://school.learnlightandsound.com! In this video, we look at the Adam Audio A7V near-field studio monitors for mixing sound for video. Spoiler alert! These are great monitors for professional mixing. More spoiler alert! The monitors are only half the deal. Your room makes a huge difference to what you hear. So, ideally, you’ll acoustically treat your room AND use a room correction system like SoundID Reference. And the A7V monitors can help you there, too — they’ll run your SoundID correction profile IN THE SPEAKERS, so you don’t have to run the SoundID Reference app on your computer. And also, if you cannot acoustically treat your room, you can at least use SoundID Reference. 👍 If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders. Our latest courses cover Sound for Live Streaming with the ATEM Mini and an Intro to Izotope RX. See https://school.learnlightandsound.com for more info! Support my work creating videos by donating at Ko-Fi.com: http://ko-fi.com/curtisjudd Gear used or mentioned in this episode (the links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases): Adam Audio A7V near-field studio monitors — https://geni.us/K6hqmc Canare XLR cable (to connect your A7Vs to your audio interface) — https://geni.us/8y4B Sonarworks SoundID Reference room correction system — https://geni.us/Jj0u Sound Devices MixPre-3 II 32-bit float audio recorder — https://geni.us/O8e0 Sennheiser MKH50 microphone — https://geni.us/iYb065 Impact Turtle-Base C-Stands — https://geni.us/8a8tt Aputure Light Dome III Softbox — https://geni.us/AVHU1p Rosco Prismatic Glass Gobo in Cool Lavender — https://geni.us/GWKt Canon C70 Cinema Camera — https://geni.us/ABYB Canon RF 24-70 f/2.8 lens — https://geni.us/qwsEs Panasonic GH5 camera — https://geni.us/InspOl Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 II lens — https://geni.us/gr47 The outro music for this episode is from Musicbed - “Dynamo” by Virgil Arles. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: https://geni.us/G7by Copyright 2025, Curtis Judd #AdamAudio #nearfieldmonitors #A7V Index 0:00 Intro 00:35 The advantage of reference monitors 01:03 My current monitor/speaker setup for mixing for video 01:42 More affordable options 02:00 Adam Audio A7V pro monitors but more affordable 02:43 Please buy my audio and lighting courses 02:50 Hard facts - the room matters as much as the monitors 03:36 Speaker placement 03:46 Acoustic treatment to your room 04:08 Room correction like SoundID Reference by Sonarworks 05:06 What’s unique about the Adam A7V monitors? 05:13 X-ART ribbon tweeter 05:37 Hardware EQ tuning 06:00 Control the monitors from an app on your computer 06:12 Run SoundID Reference correction profiles ON THE A7V SPEAKERS! 07:08 5 year warranty 07:18 Measurements — how neutral are they? 08:48 My summary and opinion 09:37 Headroom 10:20 Please buy my sound and lighting courses