Product Review - Eve Audio SC307

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Could Eve’s DSP-based approach to monitor design tempt users away from the more established brands?
Bob Thomas
Founded in 2012, Eve Audio have an illustrious back-story: their founder and owner, Roland Stenz, was CEO at Adam Audio and, having departed that fold, he put together an R&D team to design a new line of active monitors from the ground up. Their strategy is to use on-board DSP, PWM amplifiers and lower-cost Chinese manufacturing, to change the age-old balance of price versus performance.
The first thing I noticed about the SC307 was a certain cosmetic similarity to the Adam A77X that I reviewed (and purchased) last year. Although the twin 6.5-inch bass drivers and the AMT tweeter look familiar at first glance, the absence of front-panel reflex ports and the presence of a chrome control panel, replete with its multi-function controller and the stylish Eve logo, are evidence that the SC307 is no mere clone of its Adam ancestor.
The rear panel is similarly sparse. At one end you’ll find the mains IEC connector, on/off switch and voltage selector, and at the other the analogue balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA phono inputs, which sit neatly next to a block of three DSP DIP switches. This trio enables you to lock volume and filter settings, and to decide which of the two mid-range/bass drivers is to handle frequencies below 300Hz. This means that, unlike my Adams, you don’t have to worry about left or right variants with the SC307, and also that you can experiment with bass-driver positioning with the monitor in situ.
The twin rectangular reflex ports are positioned at either end of the back panel, which reduces port noise at high levels — although it does mean that you lose the face-cooling effect of front-panel ports in a hot control room. More seriously, the large size and the absence of hard edges in the ports’ design aims to reduce port compression and to maintain port efficiency at higher volumes, thus reducing distortion in the lower frequencies.

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