For a related naming reason I can think up, adamant becomes stubborn. This applies to the previously second-from-the-top Onira stubbornly clawing its way up closer to the Enigma range topper. With it the Adamante relegates the Onira to third down. Whilst looking similar, the 2nd-place usurper gets apparently very significant improvements to the 6.5" paralleled mid/woofers. Besides changes to their motors and damping for better linearity, those drivers now also flaunt copper phase plugs. The Adamante also gets the twice-sized 22cm²/88mg sandwich aluminium ribbon tweeter taken directly off the Enigma. So it's an upwardly mobile Onira with upgraded drivers and concomitant adjustments to the filter. The cabinet continues established Apertura construction. That means 28-44mm thick multi-laminated high-density molded MDF and bulging cheeks. Those curved side panels are of dissimilar width. That's because the vertical front baffle, itself significantly wider than the spine, attaches canted. Think of toe-in that's built in to see it in your mind's eye. It creates an asymmetrical cross section without any parallel walls. Only the top and bottom remain parallel to each other.


A scheme of eight cross braces fortifies this structure. Also invisible once installed are the central 'drain' cone in the middle of the four footers connected to the metal outriggers; the down-firing port with its large diameter connected to a hybrid line; and four different liner/damping materials mixed to cancel standing waves. The sum of these parts nets a claimed 32-30'000Hz bandwidth at ±3dB. Sensitivity is a useful 91dB/1w/1m, nominal impedance is 4Ω. Physically it amounts to 52kg and 22 x 35.3 x 115cm dimensions without the outriggers and footers. If you've read my prior Edena review, you already know that for his own brand—he previously contributed to Goldmund and other famous firms—Christian Yvon champions 2-ways exclusively. That makes the 3-driver Adamante a d'Appolito two-way. "We prefer two-way architectures compared to which three-ways are far more complicated and costly. The qualitative gain of a 3-way speaker is almost always seriously reduced or zero compared to a properly designed 2-way and always to the detriment of far more complex filters. Here simplicity is better." Monkey coffins will wince whilst disciples of the less-is-more doctrine applaud.