Speakers for a “cold” room

Love the panels will cure everything argument.

The reality of a diapole is that half the sound is out of phase with the front wave and adding subs doesn’t compensate, also Mijostyn not everyone loves the giant disemobodied sound that a Magneplaner makes. 

A diapole’s real advantage is that it has a figure 8 dispersion pattern which helps with rooms where side wall interactions are an issue.

Mijostyne we have a lot of panel experience with Quads, Quad ESL 63 and even Magneplaners.

With that being said, if this gentleman loves the bass of the Adagios then a speaker with even better bass the Golden Ear Tritron 1R would work very well.

They actually throw a very big soundstage, and have both good resolution and a very nice tonal balance and the bass response is fabulous.

The OP should be looking at the Tritron 1R which are way better than the older Tritons.

We used to sell the Adagios’ so yes the new Golden Ear Tritron 1R would be a very nice upgrade.

As per electronics there are a ton of great electronics for the OP to look at.

What is the buget? We are getting fabulous results with our Triton 1R with the new Krell K300i a 150 watt Class A integrated and the Naim gear.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Golden Ear dealers

Duke an austute summation but there is no way to know what is causing his problem with the Addagios.

Many years ago we sold that speaker and when setup with good electronics they sounded quite good for the design of the time we dropped them as the Dali Helicons were a far better loudspeaker.

We don't know what cables the gentleman is using, what is the quality of the source, as well as the fact  many digital amplifiers don't have the liquidity in the midrange that a good class A/B amplifier has. 

Reverberent rooms tend to sound shouty and echoey so it is hard to know if this gentleman has slap echo or not, where maybe adding a pile of pillows behind the speakres would be a cheap and effective fix or adding an area rug or other acoustical fixes.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

Duke we take a systematic approach which has been honed by having tons of gear incomming and outgoing.

There are the intrinsic attriubtes of the product and then there are the issues in matching the one product to the rest of the products and then then the room.

The issue here is to figure out is it the room, the combination of this set of speakers with the OP's particular set of matching products. 

Sometimes it is a simple fix, we setup our Blades on one side of our big showroom opposite another set of reference speakers at the time, and the Blades sounded horrible, the space was too live in that part of the room, went to Pier One and bought a boat load of different sized pillows which we then piled up behind the loudspeaker and boom the hardenss that was the room feeding back went away completely. Not exactly the look we wanted but the system sounded good.

We have used this trick at Audio Shows as well. 

So for the OP he has a few options one try a different set of speakers in the same space with the same gear and see if that is moving in the right direction, then to try a match with different electronics, digital and cabling and of course room tuning.

Without seeing pictures of the room and knowing exactly the matching gear we are both firing blindly here.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ