ADAM Audio's H715 Reference joined Thomann's catalog on October 23. ADAM is best known for studio monitors, and the pitch for the H715 is the same sound in headphones: a reference you can take to any room.
What the H715 is
ADAM Audio H715 Reference, $725
According to Thomann's listing, the H715 is an open-back design for mixing and mastering, with an additional dedicated hi-fi mode for listening to music. The drivers are PEN with a titanium coating and neodymium magnets, and the impedance is 150 ohms, so an audio interface or a headphone amp will drive it comfortably.
The software is the part that stands out. The H715 has deeper integration with Sonnox's Headphone Utility plug-in: crossfeed adjustments, ListenHub support and system-wide calibration. Crossfeed lets each ear hear a little of the other channel, as it would from speakers, which helps a headphone mix translate to a room.
In the box: fabric and faux leather ear pads that attach with magnets, a 1.3 m coiled cable that stretches to 3 m, a balanced 4.4 mm Pentaconn cable and a hardshell case.
Where it sits
The H715 costs more than 119 of the 138 studio headphones Thomann has in stock. Among open-back reference models it lands between the Neumann NDH 30 at $670 (€599) and the HEDDphone D1 at $760 (€679), above the beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro MKII at $603 (€539). For recording rather than mixing, ADAM's closed-back H200 is $161 (€144).
Hear the problem it is made for
We built an interactive page around the H715: enter your room size and seat, see how an untreated room boosts and cancels bass at your listening spot, and hear the same loop as your room, through the H715 and with crossfeed. It also breaks down every feature, the rivals at the same price and nine buyer questions: ADAM Audio H715 Reference, the special project. It is a special project made for a Thomann campaign; our rankings are not affected.
Where the numbers come from. Thomann's partner feed, which we read every night: the date the H715 first appeared, today's price and the 138 studio headphones in stock. Specifications are from Thomann's product description; we haven't measured a pair ourselves. Prices are in euros, converted at the European Central Bank rate.
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Denis Kataev runs AudioFu. Every night the site records the prices of more than 38,000 instruments and studio tools at Thomann, and he writes about what those numbers show: what got cheaper, what just arrived, and which discounts are real.
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