Best to hear them both before making a decision. The adams are not everyone's cup of tea.
The real problem after getting either one of these monitors is getting a proper volume controller, unless you don't mind controlling the left and right channels separately. Doing it that way is a huge PITA since it's extremely difficult, not to mention frustrating, to match both volume levels every time you change the volume.
Most of the cheaper passive solutions out there such as the sm pro patch/nht etc. generally suck, with channel imbalance at low volumes, basically all the issues you face with a cheap volume potentiometer solution. Some feel that passive attenuators are good because there are no active electronics to mess around with the signal so in theory the signal should be more pure, then there are also those who prefer an active approach. I had a passive TC electronics level pilot attenuator and that thing was horrible. I sold that away, got an active preamp and it's a lot better.
Sorry if i'm going OT, cos i felt this is something most people who get active studio monitors for desktop music listening tend to overlook. Unless your active studio monitors have a single volume control to control both L/R together, which is not exactly common.
